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Originally Posted by JustAnotherGuy
Based on some of the conversation here you don't have enough scientific evidence to actually have a headache. You only think it you have a headache. Which is just your opinion and can't be proven.
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Of course pain is purely subjective. That's the whole point. Pain levels fluctuate; a person gets some form of treatment and afterwards feels better. This could either be because the person thinks he/she should feel better, because the pain lessened on its own, or because the treatment reduced pain. The only way to determine whether it was because of the treatment is to study a large number of people, some of which get the treatment and some of which only think they do (assigned at random), and comparing the changes in subjective pain reported before/after in the two groups. A person going for acupuncture or another form of treatment and claiming to feel better after is not evidence that the treatment worked.