> The most common symptoms reported after 28 subjects received a placebo were, in order of decreasing frequency: moist palms, headache, fatigue, drowsiness, anx

> The most common symptoms reported after 28 subjects received a placebo were, in order of decreasing frequency: moist palms, headache, fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety, illness, dream-like feeling, increased appetite, unsteadiness, hotness, weakness, and heavy feeling in the hands and feet. When I read the title I was hoping it would be like the old joke of people getting "totally wasted" off non-alcoholic beer, like maybe they reported a sudden influx of spiders or dragons or something. But that list of things might be natural responses to spending a morning in a strange place while being asked strange questions, half of them correlate with with just being hungry.