The Placebo effect was debunked in the New England Journal of Medicine several years ago. When you do studies that track three groups -- treatment, placebo, an

The Placebo effect was debunked in the New England Journal of Medicine several years ago. When you do studies that track three groups -- treatment, placebo, and no intervention -- the placebo resembles the no intervention group. People just tend to get better when they get sick and that is conflated with a placebo effect. Google "placebo nejm" for details.