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Maybe, but maybe not. If I told you I'm either giving you actual viagra or a placebo, you might get more aroused even if given placebo. Because psychologically
by spencerchubb 2y ago
Maybe, but maybe not. If I told you I'm either giving you actual viagra or a placebo, you might get more aroused even if given placebo. Because psychologically you'll be thinking "There's at least a chance I took viagra right now"
- ekianjo 2y agothe placebo effect does not work like that. You dont get physiological benefits just by thinking you have them.
- Dylan16807 2y agoBeing more aroused is not a physiological benefit. To have no placebo effect, the random patients in the brain blood flow trial would need to all be unable to get erections, or something.
- hattmall 2y agoIsn't that the exact definition of the placebo effect?
- ekianjo 2y agoyou dont get antibodies against viruses just by thinking you have them.
- tux3 2y agoEven if this is obviously true, that does nothing to support the original statement. That's a whole different claim that you had to fall back to. Which is a motte-and-bailey type of argument.
- ekianjo 2y agoif the placebo effect only works for a minority of ailments then its probably something else like you know, regression to the mean
- alexey-salmin 2y agoAnd yet such thinking can in some cases increase your chances of surviving the viral infection. That's the placebo effect.
- ekianjo 2y agowhere did you see something like that?
- XajniN 2y agoA placebo has no physical or physiological effect at all, it can only affect what the test subjects think or pretend they feel.