People wanna tell me there’s no such thing as magic in a world where The Placebo Effect exists. Bro’s got a low level healing spell that grows stronger the more he believes it works.
they work even when you know they’re placebos. now that’s magic.
The funny thing is that the “extra strength” placebos likely have a better chance of working. The more elaborate and involved the placebo is, the greater the chance of it actually working even if you know it is a placebo. Our minds are weird. As always, I’m too lazy to look up the actual study so I don’t know if it was a quality study or not.
The important thing is that you believe there was a study ;p
Yeah, I haven’t read the study of course. Only read about it. Which makes the claim above even more dubious. But hey, this is the future, who has the time to fact check anymore?
You could ask an AI, maybe they’ll invent a source for you
If you only read about it that gives it 50% chance at best at being true. Luckily I also read about it, so together that makes it 100% true.
Math checks out.
I only use brand name placebos. Generic doesn’t work for me.
If it works. I do not care how.
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.
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.
Put it on 90% “sale” all the time.
I know that’s illegal, but when have laws mattered to pharmaceutical companies?
But be careful with the dose
Just pretend you took an ephemeral pill. Placebos work like that too.
