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My drug of choice is placebo. The more I use, the better it gets. I recommend it to everyone
by seibelj 11y ago
My drug of choice is placebo. The more I use, the better it gets. I recommend it to everyone
- YokoZar 11y agoIt has to be good, it's the standard by which other medicines are judged!
- Gravityloss 11y agoTurns out the study which verified the placebo effect was actually seriously flawed. It's because, on average, sick people tend to get better even if nothing is done. The placebo study had no control group. So they can't say giving a placebo is better than doing nothing.
- SquareWheel 11y agoNot an expert myself, but I somehow doubt there was only a single study showing the effectiveness of placebos. It's a very common subject and a key component of current scientific testing (control groups).
- mcphage 11y agoIt stopped helping me, so I switched to Extra Strength Placebo. Thankfully, that did the trick!
- mjcohen 11y agoGinseng is supposed to enhance the effect of whatever it is taken with. So, make sure to take some with your placebo.
- tokenadult 11y agoThe 11 January 2016 group-edited blog post by Dr. David Gorski, "Is 'harnessing the power of placebo' worthwhile to treat anything?"[1] is a serious discussion of placebo effects and what studies of those effects show about human medical treatment. https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harnessing-the-power-of-placebo-worthwhile-to-treat-anything/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-harnessing-the-power...
- Joof 11y agoThe author didn't seem to refute that placebo with some amount of deception could have moderately significant positive effects on subjective diseases such as pain / depression. Not that alternative medicine is ethical due to that, but simply that having a strong doctor/patient relationship may be almost as good as prescribing drugs in some scenarios. Or subjective measuring just sucks and some diseases have to rely on it so the measurement is affected more than the disease. Objective diseases are a whole other matter.