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There is space for placebos in conventional medicine. Doctors CAN and are allowed to prescribe placebos. However medicine strives to maintain a separation betw
by Herval_freire 3y ago
There is space for placebos in conventional medicine. Doctors CAN and are allowed to prescribe placebos.
However medicine strives to maintain a separation between an actual body of scientific knowledge and placebo treatments. So, yes, while a placebo can be effective nobody is going to transcribe that placebo onto actual scientific knowledge as if it wasn't a placebo.
Right, so antibiotics work as a placebo, but am I going to put that knowledge down into textbooks that antibiotics can cure the common cold just because such knowledge effectively works as a placebo? No.
- flavius29663 3y ago> antibiotics can cure the common cold Antibiotics are not pure placebo. They are also given to make sure there isn't a bacteria ready to take advantage of the weakened immune system. The regular treatment for COVID also included antibiotics, for the reason I mentioned.