The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Placebo effects are very real. Placebo effects and belief effects, as they're called, have a profound effect on our experience of noxious stimuli like pain and they can also have a profound effect on positive stimuli and things that we're looking forward to.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Placebo effects are very real Placebo effects and belief effects as they're called have a profound effect on our experience of noxious stimul like pain and they can also have a profound effect on positive stimuli and things that we're looking forward to