Re:Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway
by wyager on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:44PM
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That’s fine, I’ll easily believe “medical research can make no accurate predictions in this domain” - in fact, that’s my prior. In any case, people shouldn’t go around speaking as if placebo is this established strong phenomenon.
2007 paper that specifically cites Hróbjartsson et al., but claims that they overlooked certain specific effects:
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-...
2019 review that also cites Hróbjartsson et al., but catches up on subsequent and broader placebo/nocebo research and concludes that both still seem efficaceous in the right contexts. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.0036...