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.
for some reason as the level of invasiveness or the let's just say the complexity of a given treatment is increased well then the magnitude of the placebo effect is also increased and what this tells us is that the human brain has come to associate level of invasiveness level of complexity of a given treatment or machine to equate to bigger outcomes and in some sense that's completely logical
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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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