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Re:Lung Cancer and the Power of Suggestion by randomdata on Sunday February 10, 2013 @11:37AM (#5196838)
I found it to be thought provoking, even if it wasn't able to form any definite conclusions. Correlation is still interesting for many reasons.

Your post suggests that it has been researched before (and presumably proved to show no link), but searching Google did not yield any results for me. I, and I'm sure most everyone who has read this article, would love to look over the findings if you are able to share what you know.

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Re:Lung Cancer and the Power of Suggestion by zzzeek on Sunday February 10, 2013 @11:42AM (#5196858)
The blog post in question states in the fourth paragraph he was inspired by the recent article about "placebos and nocebos", which is "the article" I'm referring to. That is, we're reading the product of someone's short-term random curiosity. Random curiosity is a great thing but IMHO the path from random curiosity to published findings needs to have some serious experience in the middle for it to be worth our time.
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