Contrarian view: any placebo that is mostly water diluted by a lot more water is probably a fairly safe placebo, and societies need some good placebos -- as long as they're not substituting for real medicine, and people don't take them too seriously.https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1188821452193239040 …
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i view a lot of that stuff now as helping, just like asmr helps. it relaxes the user, brings the person down, de-stresses. whatever can help someone ease suffering is a plus
But ASMR has active ingredients called sound, voice, & intimacy. 
