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Thomas Eshuis wrote:

The_Metatron wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:
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.