Daniel_

One of the key points of evidence based medicine is that if it works it's OK.

The human body is a great thing, and ~25% of the time belief is all it takes - the placebo effect is that strong.

This works both ways - if you believe it will make you better it may well make you better even though there's no therapeutic reason it should. Contrariwise if you are convinced it won't help it may not help even though science says it should.

What this means is that telling people its fake won't stop it working, unless they believe you.

If candles make Shanni feel better, then candles work, until one of us ingrates convinces her that they're hokum...

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