http://www.politedissent.com/archives/390 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/390/comment-page-1#comment-1851 matthew rossi Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:24:02 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/390#comment-1851 You know, we have got to find a way to harness the placebo effect. All these studies where a sugar pill can do as much as the tested substance convinces me that either A) sugar has unwarranted curative powers or B) you can do a lot if you can convince someone to believe something will work on them. You know, we have got to find a way to harness the placebo effect. All these studies where a sugar pill can do as much as the tested substance convinces me that either A) sugar has unwarranted curative powers or B) you can do a lot if you can convince someone to believe something will work on them.

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