Re: An explanation for hormesis? -Reply

[John Flood <FloodJR@nv.doe.gov>]

>>> "Jerry Cohen"
<jjcohen@prodigy.net> 02/06/01 01:58pm
>>>
>Does the phenomenon work both
>ways? For example, would a genuine
>belief in the occurrence of harmful
>effects of exposure to DU cause
>increased harmful effects...

It seems to me that if an antiplacebo
effect exists, those with the most
intense paranoia about radiation,
i.e., "every photon's a killer"
(Goffman, Stewart, Wing, Alec Baldwin)
would all be dead of cancer by now.

More to the point: is there any
evidence in any medical arena of
psychosomatic cancer? It seems like it
would be a little tough to cause
cancer by pursuasion.

Bob Flood

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