This rabbit hole of placebos goes very deep. They very much do work, and they work way too well, too often. For example, [0] might really surprise you. And j

This rabbit hole of placebos goes very deep. They very much do work, and they work way too well, too often. For example, [0] might really surprise you. And just to really complicate our model of placebos, you should realize there are the opposite of placebos, called nocebos[1]. [0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/onlyhuman/episodes/real-doctors-fake-medicine-placebos https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/onlyhuman/episodes/real... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099043/