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by dTal
3875 days ago
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>it's kind of funny that skeptics like to dismiss impressive sounding treatments as being placebos. A placebo is a pretty impressive phenomenon! It's not about whether a treatment works at all - it's about whether it works better than any old random thing. If it doesn't, you can hardly call it a treatment. Sure you could go "hallelujah, a new medicine!" when you find that a sugar pill provides a slight improvement, just like sand pills and empty pills and homeopathy. But you haven't actually discovered anything new. |
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The fact that sugar pills work may not be new, but it's still pretty remarkable.