"People who spoke of thoughts influencing a person’s health were once ridiculed. But the discovery of the placebo effect helped change that. Now it’s commonly accepted that some such connection and impact exists. When Guglielmo Marconi developed long-distance radio communication at the turn of the 20th century, he had to go to great lengths to prove that it worked. When he said he could transmit his voice many miles, through the air, people thought he was lying. When he demonstrated it, they even accused him of trickery, of hiding the wires. These are two examples of advances in science—initially viewed as woo woo ..." (read more)
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