What Is Consciousness?, page-213

''@DBT9 and do you believe in a placebo effect for plants? You cannot even give an answer to a simple question.''

I answer all your unsubstantiated claims with material from reliable sources, Australian Medical Journal, Swiss Medical, Pub Med, etc, who evaluate these things and give an overall assessment of the results....you just don't pay attention....why? Quite simply, you want to believe whatever appeals to your desires. Isn't that so?

Once again, what sort of picture does this paint?

• Three practitioners testing eleven subjects made significantly different assessments; their diagnoses of nutritional deficiencies did not correspond to the nutrient levels obtain by blood serum analysis; and that the responses to nutrient substances did not significantly differ from responses to placebos [10].
• Another study found no effect from administering the nutrients “expected” to strengthen a muscle diagnosed as “weak” by AK practitioners.” [11]
• Researchers who conducted an elaborate double-blind trial concluded that “muscle response appeared to be a random phenomenon.” [12]
• Another study showed that suggestion can influence the outcome of muscle-testing. During part of this experiment, college students were told that chewing M&M candies would give them instant energy that would probably make them test stronger. Five out of nine did so [13].
• Four AK practitioners tested seven patients who were extremely sensitive to wasp venom. Altogether, 140 muscle tests were done to see how the patients responded to preparations of venom or salt water in a bottle. If the test were valid, the venom bottles should result in “strong” reactions and the salt-water bottles should produce “weak” test reactions. However, the practitioners were unable to identify which bottles contained which [14].
• Several chiropractors were tested at a medical office while under unblinded and blinded conditions. During the volunteers could resist downward pressure when a drop of glucose was placed on their tongue but could resist when fructose was administered. The arm tests were repeated using substances in coded test tubes so that the volunteer, the chiropractors, and the onlookers could not tell which solution being applied to the volunteer’s tongue. When the code was revealed, There was no connection between ability to resist and whether the volunteer was given the “good” or the “bad” sugar [15].