Placebo Effect

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[ryzlot]

I take 4 placebos a day for perfect health

[faridaro]

Fascinating subject! Would be great if placebos were integrated into mainstream medicine - no side effects!

[Hidden in reply to faridaro]

Have you heard of the nocebo effect? If not, Google it

[faridaro in reply to Hidden]

I've heard about nocebo and it was also mentioned in the article.

[pvw2]

When you have symptoms like pain, we don't have instruments to measure it. Thus, the measurement is subjective and easy to get the placebo effect. There may be more objective ways to measure pain, such as methods used for lie detectors, but even that is influenced by mental state.