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the placebo effect does not work like that. You dont get physiological benefits just by thinking you have them.
by ekianjo 2y ago
the 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.