The healing effects of placebos have increased over the past three decades. In the 1980s, the placebo effect was almost zero. Now it sometimes reaches 70%.
What has changed in our world? Why is the placebo effect so widespread? If placebo is effective, what are the implications for conventional medications?
Dr. William Tiller of Stanford University and Dr. Nisha Manek of the Mayo Clinic attempted to understand how placebos work. The connection between body and mind has long been raised in placebo studies, but Tiller and Manek decided to take a fresh look at this aspect.
Usually, a placebo is a drug that has no effect on human health, such as a sugar pill. The placebo effect occurs as a result of a person's thoughts that affect the body in some psychobiological way. But what if human thought changes the composition of the placebo, and it itself acquires healing properties?
Dr. Tiller conducts many experiments on human intentions, some of his research described in The Epoch Times. He identified powerful matter in a vacuum that is influenced by human consciousness. He even managed to create an apparatus that captures human intention.
His experiments showed that human thought can change the pH level of water. It does not matter if this intention comes directly from a person standing next to the water, or it is fixed by a machine. In both cases, the effect was the same. Tiller's experiments are described in more detail in the article "Physicist claims to have created a machine that captures human thought."
The idea of the influence of a person's intention on physical reality can change the understanding of the placebo effect. Tiller and Manek hypothesized that intention affects placebo through information entanglement. The placebo potential changes as a result of human intention, and as a result, the placebo has a physical effect on the patient's body.
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Information confusion
In a classic placebo study, there is a doctor, a patient and a placebo and a treatment process. We believe that these elements are separated in space and time. Tiller and Manek believe that the placebo is directly related to the treatment process, and this connection (or entanglement) changes its potential: it ceases to be a dummy.
The term "information entanglement" is different from the well-known concept of "quantum entanglement". Tiller and Manek explained this difference in their 2011 paper, "Reinventing the Effect: Unraveling Entanglement," published in Medical Hypothesis.
“This macroscopic entanglement appears to be different from quantum entanglement, which is the relationship of the quantum states of particles, such as photons and electrons, that persists even over distance and over time. With quantum entanglement, successful experiments have been carried out at very low temperatures (close to absolute zero) inside a very small system.
But recently, attempts have been made to do this in larger systems, such as inside small crystals. In turn, the phenomenon of information entanglement is observed at room temperature and at large distances, for example, inside laboratories, which are 9600 kilometers from each other.
Tiller and Manek continue their experiments, but so far there is no talk of giving up drugs in favor of a placebo: “We are not talking about giving up medical treatment, because currently placebo in experiments with information entanglement does not give more effect than drugs."