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The placebo effect is getting stronger over time
- tokenadult 17y agoSurely the correct fact is not the fact suggested by the headline. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=4304 http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=4304 "Let’s break this down a bit. First, they found that when you look at any objective or clinically important outcome--the kinds of things that would indicate a real biological effect--there is no discernible placebo effect. There is no mind-over-matter self healing that can be attributed to the placebo effect. "What the authors found is also most compatible with the hypothesis that placebo effects, as measured in clinical trials, are mostly due to bias. Specifically, significant placebo effects were found only for subjectively reported symptoms. Further, the size of this effect varied widely among trials."