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All treatment modalities have a placebo effect. Including surgery. See: decades of modern research on sham surgeries.

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• neonate 7y ago
  True of course, but having a placebo effect is not the same as being a placebo. Non-placebos have other effects too.
  • strbean 7y ago
    The term "super-placebo" is silly in the first place. Any effective treatment is a "super-placebo" - it works better than placebo.