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Visiting the pharmacy
By Jeremy, an Ex-Christian Scientist group editor/writer. Other than the doctor's office and the hospital, the other scary new place for the former Christian Scientist entering the new (to them)…
By Jeremy, an Ex-Christian Scientist group editor/writer.
If you spend any amount of time in or around Christian Science and read the published output of the Christian Science Church (through its periodicals and its spokespeople), you’re bound to come across discussion of the placebo effect (otherwise known as placebo response). It is frequently used as a gateway to insert Christian Science into the discussion of more credible alternative health care modalities (some of which actually submit themselves to scientific study), or even the discussion of scientifically-based medical treatment itself.