The case against the placebo effect.

This one cut me deep. My foundational belief in the placebo effect’s efficacy is shaken. It’ll take some more time and reading for me to fully come around to this point of view, but I am no longer going to mouth off about placebos as if I know a thing. “To repeat my earlier maxim, if there is a statistically significant effect of placebo on an objective outcome, chances are it is either noise, fraud, questionable research practices, or a mischaracterization of a subjective outcome as objective.” ~ learn more