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I think this is an interesting study, that, if I'm interpreting it correctly, reflects what I would have expected: you give someone a new medical treatment, and
by version_five 5y ago
I think this is an interesting study, that, if I'm interpreting it correctly, reflects what I would have expected: you give someone a new medical treatment, and they have a chance both of imagining symptoms through placebo effect, or attributing any unrelated symptoms to the treatment. So real "adverse effects" take work to uncover.
I also want to make the point that the article takes what I think should be a simple point with data backing it up, and makes it super confusing both by terminology and by information overload. It would be great to see a simple chart that compares real and placebo effects concisely, instead of the current presentation. Maybe I've strayed to far from academia, but complicated is not better