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Default Placebos Do Work: Let's Consider Why
Placebos Do Work: Let's Consider Why

By Christopher Lane, Ph.D. on June 26, 2009 - 7:37am in Side Effects
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...r-why/comments
This page at PsychToday has MANY comments from readers. The article above is linked to from the "read more" page.

"We not only know placebos work," Harriet Hall explains in a fascinating, well-researched article in Skeptic, "we know there is a hierarchy of effectiveness."

For one thing, telling the patient, "This will relieve your pain" works better than saying "This might help."


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