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Pharmaceutical companies have big financial incentives to keep this kind of information out of the public consciousness.
by zackattack 17y ago
Pharmaceutical companies have big financial incentives to keep this kind of information out of the public consciousness.
- JabavuAdams 17y agoNot really. Placebos are cheap to make, and require the user to believe -- i.e. benefit from marketing. In our society, I could see the following: the $10 sexily-marketed placebo pill / treatment must be better than the $2 knock-off, so people buy the $10 pill. Okay, they likely won't be buying $50k / year treatments, but all of a sudden the meds only cost cents to produce. Pharma => Apple
- Semiapies 17y agoOr, you know, they could exploit the actual pain-killing mechanism discussed in TFA...