As I pointed out in a recent blog post, if you look at only the studies where the researchers intentionally gave people a cold, the effect vanishes.

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He pointed at my laptop and asked if he could take a look.

NEWYORKER: Leap of Faith

Finally a solicitor friend pointed out the stupidity of the situation and was just the news story that newspapers and TV look for.

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