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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it works. I do not care how.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I agree. However, to me, something feels wrong about companies making money selling a product to people with the promise that they work when they don't actually do anything in and of themselves. It's false advertising plus taking money out of people's pockets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC, studies have also shown that the cost of the placebo had a direct correlation to the efficacy. Ah yes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345649/

Conclusion:

Expensive placebo significantly improved motor function and decreased brain activation in a direction and magnitude comparable to, albeit less than, levodopa. Perceptions of cost are capable of altering the placebo response in clinical studies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's not stupid if it works