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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by TuringTest on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:51AM (#18399056)
> Whenever there is a physical measurement that can be made about some affected body function, the placebo effect mysteriously disappears.

What matters is not that subjective feelings do improve?

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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by gcthomas on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:56AM (#18399090)
The claim is that physical ailments improve, which isn't true if there are physical measurements takes.
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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by TuringTest on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:19AM (#18399233)
Well apparently there are physical measurable effects, as another poster commented below.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306437.php

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Re:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? by jen729w on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:12AM (#18399189)
It depends what you have. I don't want to feel great if I still have terminal cancer. I want it cured.
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