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Entries from November 25th, 2009

Is Pharma Responsible for the Rise in the Placebo Effect?

November 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Opinion, Trends

By Guy Mastrion
An article in a recent issue of WIRED cited statistics that the placebo effect is twice as strong as it used to be.
Is it really, I wondered? I guessed not. I guessed that there was a good reason for it. And I came up with a couple of possibilities.
First possibility. What if we [...]

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