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I've heard that claim before, and it seems rather obvious when you think about it. That raises the question, has the medical research community picked up on th
by rocqua 9y ago
I've heard that claim before, and it seems rather obvious when you think about it.
That raises the question, has the medical research community picked up on this? I would expect a burgeoning movement to correct this in medical trials.
- austinjp 9y agoIf you visit scholar.google.com and search for "placebo" you'll see there's a huge amount of medical research (and speculation) dedicated to it.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoAs far as I'm aware, they have, and once you take that into account placebo only has a very limited effect in controlling self-reported pain and nausea, everything else was just bad statistics. http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/ http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak... Though as that article explains, shysters, whether practicing some kind of standard woo, or working for big pharma, are keen to continue to pretend they don't understand this as long as it's paying their salary.
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