Well, now it's known that a placebo works, and the mind being mysterious still, a placebo is only a known unknown. But if you give a sugar pill to a person who

Well, now it's known that a placebo works, and the mind being mysterious still, a placebo is only a known unknown. But if you give a sugar pill to a person who had never heard of the placebo effect, and tell him/her that the pill is only sugar with no effect whatsoever, perhaps we might find that the placebo effect does not manifest.