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If Placebos Work So Well, Why Not Prescribe Sugar Pills for Everything?
- leakycap 1y agoCouldn't we say most homeopathic medication is akin to a placebo? But to answer your question posed in the title, it's the Hippocratic oath.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoBecause medicine works better, this is literally how we do drug trials.
- dazc 1y agoIn place of Metformin for diabetes, it could be counter-productive?
- vunderba 1y agoFrom the article > More subtly, doctors can fudge the language by asking patients if they consent to something like “try different medicines, including placebos” to retain the power of self-fulfilling improvement. Unless your name is Charlie Kelly [1] - that ain't going to work. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2999352 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2999352
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- Bender 1y agoPlacebos may help for psychosomatic issues but I would suggest using something that tastes like medicine and not promote sugar any further. Some of the binders used in pharma drugs taste like medicine.
- tjr 1y agoYes please. Aggravatingly, so-called nutrition experts seem to be all over the map with their guidance, ranging from recommending eating only vegetables to eating only meat and all sorts of stops in between, but it seems pretty much everyone even remotely credible agrees that we should eat less sugar.