[rjblackman]

Interesting quote. I have often wondered what would happen if there were more studies into the benefits of the placebo effect, it seems it is only studied as a side effect of other studies.

[Lewton]

> I have often wondered what would happen if there were more studies into the benefits of the placebo effec

We might eventually find that the placebo effect is a measure of how bad we are at doing science

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105243442106

[sdfin]

There are some interesting studies that focus on the placebo effect, e.g. http://n.neurology.org/content/early/2015/01/28/WNL.00000000...