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The_Metatron wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Because placebos don't rely on the premise that you're powerless.

Er, yes they do.

Nope.

Most placebos are sold as helping your body cure itself, not as divine intervention required by the powerless.

I didn't think anyone sells placebos, as such. Sure, homeopathic shit. But, isn't a placebo a way to define the control in a drugs trial? One group gets the real treatment, another gets the placebo (null) treatment.

Even if that were the case and it isn't, because homoeopathy = placebos, t hey just pretend otherwise, in control groups people usually aren't told either that they're completely helpless and need the placebo to get better.