▶ Your Answer :
In the lecture, the professor casts doubt on the reading passage's idea that recent researches have many quests whether a placebo effect really exist or not. The professor asserts that the placebo impact really exists for the following three reasons.
First and foremost, according to the reading passage, there was early scientist' fallacy, for example, they divided into two groups except for patients given no treatments. Moreover, the writer states that patients' feeling better is natural as time goes by. In opposition to this argument, the professor claims that recent findings are more reliable than the past. In the present, many new findings have been discovered that is an important role.
Secondly, the reading passage describes that those who have a general lifestyle cannot discriminate an influence of placebo. Because a patient who feels his conditions better thanks to not a placebo but his regular lifestyle. The professor argues that a mental disease such as depression actually was improved by a placebo, and even a placebo work when lifestyle changes would be ineffectual.
Lastly, the professor rebuts the reading passage's point that there is no evidence regarding the objective results of realistic improvements. The professor points out that observable changes have been recorded in patients suffering from mental problems and physical illnesses. |