I absolutely subscribe to the fact that placebo/nocebo can be as (or even more) powerful than the intervention that a candidate believes that they are receiving

I absolutely subscribe to the fact that placebo/nocebo can be as (or even more) powerful than the intervention that a candidate believes that they are receiving. When I read anecdotes that fall out of line with our scientific understanding of the facts (such as the one I posed above), my default assumption is that we're witnessing placebo at play. From the outside, I definitely would not trust my anecdote. After my experience though, and now knowing what I know about the drug, I still wouldn't chalk my experience up to placebo. I guess that's the catch-22 of the phenomenon, eh?