"Placebo is amazingly powerful" Not really. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-placebos-and-asthma/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/in

"Placebo is amazingly powerful" Not really. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-placebos-and-asthma/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/spin-city-plac... Placebo mostly just /feels/ amazingly powerful. For some symptoms, like pain, this is good enough. But it doesn't really have much of an effect in terms of treating an actual physiological problem. A lot of homeopathy/other placebo is administered by CAM "doctors" who think that it actually works! The idea that someone with that little real knowledge and a wealth of misinformation about how the human body works (ditto biology, basic chemistry, or the scientific process) is trying to treat medical problems is, frankly, terrifying. See also: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/benedetti-on-placebos/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/benedetti-on-p... http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-rebranding-of-cam/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-rebranding...