From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
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| article <1qjc0fINN841@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
|| Now, if instead of using the MSG as a food additive, you put the MSG 
|| in gelatin capsules or whatever, there may not
|| be a reaction, becasue the _sensory_response_ might be
|| a necessary element in the creation of the MSG reaction.  (I'll bet 
|| the bogus medical researchers never even thought about 
|| that obvious fact.)

| Gee.  He means "placebo effect."  Sorry, but the researchers DO know about
| this.

Carl, it is not "placebo effect" if as hypothesised the 
sensory response to MSG's effect on flavor is responsible
for the MSG reaction.

Steve
