In the case of depression, says Dr Kirsch, giving patients placebo pills can produce verynearlythesame effect as dosing them with the latest antidepressant medicines.
Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be verynearlythesame - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays.
More Americans are depending on government (and private charities) because our economy went off a cliff thanks directly and nearly solely to the economic malfeasance of George Bush and the Republican Party and has been very slow to recover because thesame Republican Party has blocked essential stimulus measures to improve employment and the economy.