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I thought the Sea-Band Wristband[0] type of products already went there, even for morning sickness relief? [0] https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wrist
by coverband 8y ago
I thought the Sea-Band Wristband[0] type of products already went there, even for morning sickness relief?
[0] https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod...
- Thlom 8y agoI’ve tried these on my kids and first thought it worked, but next time we went for a long drive it didn’t work at all. Difficult to really test these things on kids as sometimes we can drive for hours with no issues, while other times they puke after 20 minutes ...
- Retra 8y agoWhy would those work?
- jimnotgym 8y agoMy son said, "how do these work, is it just the placebo effect?". I replied that why would it matter if it was a placebo, as long as it worked? But they did work, and he seemed happy enough conning himself.
- Retra 8y agoI'm not your son. That you've found an explanation to convince a child to stop asking questions isn't exactly relevant to me.
- acct1771 8y agoThe scientifically documented efficacy of the placebo effect is, however.
- jimnotgym 8y agoExactly, and my son was smart enough to recognise that it may just be a placebo, but with an amazing easy-going attitude was happy to see if this placebo worked on him.
- Retra 8y agoAnd next time your son has a headache, you'll give him the sea-band. The placebo effect is a miracle cure that treats all kinds of things, right?
- jimnotgym 8y agoYes, indeed I note that often in drug trials they hand out the placebo with the instructions "this is the drug to treat a different condition to the one you have"
- Retra 8y agoPlacebo has never worked for me. So as someone who gets sea-sick, it's pretty damn important to me that a product which intends to operate based on the placebo effect be identified as such. Not everybody is healed by lies, after all.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoHow can we tell if we've been helped by a placebo?
- Retra 8y agoYou just say "I feel better" if any scientists or doctors ask you if anything changed. You'll be a placebo-effect supporting data point in no time.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoI meant, how can we say 'they don't help me'? We may already be taking them.
- Retra 8y agoIf you're taking them and the symptoms don't go away, then obviously they don't work. I don't understand why that's a question?
- JoeAltmaier 8y ago...because we may be prescribed what's essentially a placebo and it seems to work and we don't know that it was a placebo. The claim that 'placebos don't work on me' seems like a hard claim to verify.
- jimnotgym 8y agoAlso taking the line that "Nothing works on me unless I understand the mechanism" is kind of obtuse, considering that the article we are commenting on is about a device that relieves motion sickness, where even the inventor doesn't make any claims to know the mechanism by which they relieve the sickness. This may be the placebo effect, of course.
- coverband 8y agoWhy would subtle vibrations behind the head work? ;-) I'm sure someone has a theory about each one. I don't particularly claim that it works, but: a) pharmacies carry them, and b) anecdotal evidence suggests that it may work for some people.
- Nomentatus 8y agoSee the article for their theory.