Placebo Effect
Comments center on the strength, validity, and mechanisms of the placebo effect, frequently questioning if observed benefits in treatments or studies are due to placebo rather than active interventions, and noting it works even when known.
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if the placebo effect works, why not?
The Placebo Effect really works sometimes!
You’re underestimating the effects of placebo.
How do we know it's not a placebo effect?
How can you know this isn't the placebo effect?
Placebo and nocebo are strong effects. Even when the people taking placebos knows it, they still work.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83148-6
Placebo effect still happens even when you know it's a placebo
Placebo effect is stronger than most people think, also works the other way.
It's quite likely your outsized effect is more placebo than induced effect.
as a study of one, how do you know it isn't the placebo effect?