"Right, right, sci-fi was filled with faster-than-light travel, but really? That's next to impossible. And even if you could send an object like that, it can't be good for an organism. the biological processes might stop, because they're definitely limited by the speed of light. Or, electricity, really, because everything starts in the neuron pathways."

And he was just warming up.

"The Placebo Effect basically works like this: they want to get better, so we give them something and say it will work, and voila! It does. The basic premise is that wishing makes it so. The accepted reasoning behind it usually assumes the affliction was psychosomatic in the first place... but I don't think it always is, and even then, it was wishing that created the affliction. If we have so much control over our body, it stands to reason we have some control over our environment - science is starting to prove that, now, and it probably continues into your day... maybe never mainstream, though."