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crazier thing about studies like this to me has always been the placebo group. should we not be further exploring the fact that belief in being healed itself appears to heal people?https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1389411338250715138 …
science people getting triggered here because they think i’m implying something magical about placebo. i’m not. i’m talking about an apparently very important aspect of human biology we don’t fully understand, in which we seem not to be especially interested.
Bruce Wampold's addressed this. It's one of his factors for effective therapy: the individual's belief in the therapy.
There's lots of research being conducted on the placebo effect.
There are placebo surgeries where the placebo was as effective... We should spend a huge portion of our time just trying to figure out how to induce this.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=placebo&btnG= … Just LOOK. There’s a trove of work on this.
There's this book "mind over Medicine" and there's plenty of documented cases by the name of "spontaneous healing"
The really uncomfortable thought is that BS like homeopathy might have a positive effect on patients that are dumb enough to believe in it.
It is like “the upside of stress” point ... believing stress is good for you makes it good for you. There is something worth studying with placebo effects
@DrJoeDispenza has a lot to say here. We are the placebo.
The placebo arm also did Cogntive Behavioral Therapy, which is the current standard of care. But in general, this is interesting, just not here.
CBT has a long track record of success. Odd how we’re just calling this group the placebo.
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