"Can a dummy pill genuinely cure?

Studies have shown that the placebo effect can be as effective as real medication in treating depression (30% response rate) and pain (50% pain reduction).

"Believe you can and you're halfway there," - Theodore Roosevelt.

What's the most convincing fake remedy you've ever heard?

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I note that mental health professionals—therapists, social workers, and counselors—will find these results pertinent. In two rigorous randomized, double-blind trials, psilocybin microdosing produced no reliable gains in memory, attention, or social cognition among healthy volunteers, despite pharmacological activity and anecdotal claims. Instead, the findings point to the placebo effect as a driving factor in subjective impressions, with blinding successfully maintained and no objective cognitive advantages detected.

Article Title: Psilocybin microdosing fails to boost cognitive performance in rigorous trials

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💊 Trust in medicine – The influence of the doctor-patient relationship 👨‍⚕️🤒

The subjective experience of being taken seriously and understood has a real medical effect – even to the extent of what we know as the placebo effect. Healing is therefore not only a neurobiological or technical process, but also a deeply relational one.

🎥 https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

#TrustInMedicine #DoctorPatientRelationship #ThomasFuchs #PlaceboEffect #MedicalEthics #Zoomposium

LATER's business model:
Do nothing ✓
Charge money for it ✓
No settings because choice is anxiety ✓
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LATER's business model:
Do nothing ✓
Charge money for it ✓
No settings because choice is anxiety ✓
Works because placebos work ✓
This is either genius or insane. For $0.99, find out which.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/later/id6753189220

#BusinessModel #PlaceboEffect #StatusSignaling #MentalHealth

Fun fact: Your brain can't tell the difference between real achievement and watching a progress bar complete. LATER is $0.99 exploitation of this bug in your mental software. Side effects include: feeling better.

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LATER's business model:
Do nothing ✓
Charge money for it ✓
No settings because choice is anxiety ✓
Works because placebos work ✓
This is either genius or insane. For $0.99, find out which.

https://apple.co/42IF9Yd

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If we take away the statistical quirks and biases, is there any placebo effect left?

Once you eliminate well-understood elements like bias and regression to the mean, there's no remarkable placebo effect left to explain

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/09/if-we-take-away-the-statistical-quirks-and-biases-is-there-any-placebo-effect-left/

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