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The Skeptics Guide #877 - Apr 30 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Plastibo Effect?

There's no suitable placibo for the therapy, because the therapy itself unblinds itself. So sometimes you're doing therapy, it's hard to blind that. There is also non specific effects such as just being around a provider. But there's no reason to think that the tapping is actually doing anything. And just like e m d r, there's no evidence that the moving of the eyes and i ha o whats integrating the right and left hemisphere. They make these ridiculous, like neuro scientific, psycho babble explanations for what's happening. It's not science.

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