3 ms·
The 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
by tokenadult 11y ago
The 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.