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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Sep 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted NEJM Journal Watch

      Fantastic study. It was the act of taking a pill that induced symptoms, not the statins in the pill themselves—even if side effects stopped when the pill was discontinued. The human mind/brain is a player in everything. “Some patients had fewer symptoms on statins than placebo.”https://twitter.com/JWatch/status/1441029583042719744 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      NEJM Journal Watch @JWatch
      Statins' side effects seem more related to taking a pill than to what's in the pill. https://jwat.ch/3EIMRnp  @hmkyale #statins
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Sep 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted robin

      If it needs to be said, this study wasn’t about rare serious side effects, or complications like rhabdomyolysis! It’s just an important demonstration of mind/brain/body unity.https://twitter.com/Crystal_Ball1/status/1441165344026947587 …

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      robin @Crystal_Ball1
      Replying to @zeynep
      For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the condition that statins triggered in both my mother and mother in law. Both are deceased 10+ years. Rapid onset severe debilitating muscle pain. Both had to go on prednisone which then triggered diabetes. Nightmare situation.
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Sep 2021

      Also obviously, the fact that your mind/brain is part of the side effect profile doesn’t mean the medicine doesn’t have side effects itself. The philosophical duality is outdated.

      3:37 PM - 23 Sep 2021
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        1. Kate Shuster‏ @kateshuster 23 Sep 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          The placebo effect is a kind of effect.

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        1. robin‏ @Crystal_Ball1 23 Sep 2021
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          Kinda hitting a sore spot here with me as my mother was a geriatric RN who also thought asthma and other ailments (cancer is a personality disease. negativity induces cancer) were all of the mind. Drug reactions are real. Unless there is some massive hypochondria taking place.

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        2. Melon Usk‏ @1LoafOfMeat 23 Sep 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          My favorite placebo study. Placebo surgery works!!https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htm …

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        3. Mavs Burner‏ @MavsBurner 25 Sep 2021
          Replying to @1LoafOfMeat @zeynep

          Did they control for post-surgery anti-inflammatory treatment and PT?

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        1. stoey‏ @_stoey 23 Sep 2021
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          Participants were hooked up to machines to measure their "sleep quality" overnight. Those that got a "good quality" result out performed the others on cognitive tests. Thing is the machines did nothing and the results were just randomly assigned. Even placebo sleep is a thing!

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