> Science can hold many assertions in regards to facts and such..but it doesn't always cover every single aspect. Going back to headphones here, this could be analogous to the whole lower and sub-sonic frequencies. As stated before, human hearing is within the 20hz-20KHZ frequency.. correct? Yet, sound engineers, audiophiles, professional musicians attest and swear that while the science may hold truth, adding the sub frequency notes actually adds to the whole spectrum of sound; somehow makes it fuller, better and more real and 3 dimensional sounding. And this isn't me stating this, this is a wide consensus... Is that Placebo as-well?
EDIT: Shotor's anti-science sentiments just don't work. I could post a long rant about why, and how this VERY type of ignorance causes a disgusting state of education today, but I won't. I'll simplify it as this: I was once told by someone here on the topic of headphones and digital audio that he "doesn't trust engineers." I hope it's clear that this is not at all unlike a redneck somewhere saying "I don't believe 'cars' exist. I just don't think they do, and nothing you fancy-pancy 'engineers' tell me will change my valid opinion."
EDIT: I included a long rant explaining how frequencies outside of 20hz-20khz can very much effect your hearing and this is well understood scientifically.
Anyway on the topic of placebo, if you think you can tell when it's working on you or not, then I don't think you know what placebo is. By definition, placebo seems indistinguishable from reality. In fact, placebo works even if you KNOW at the time that what you are experiencing is placebo. It's like in the cartoons when the character runs off the cliff and hovers mid-air, until they realize that's not supposed to happen and then fall down -- with placebo when you realize you're hovering in mid-air, you still won't fall down.
