No, placebos probably aren’t getting stronger over time
Placebo responses have not gotten stronger over the past 30 years – trials are just better at isolating treatment effects from noise
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/07/no-placebos-probably-arent-getting-stronger-over-time/
Reprogram your brain to believe that positive change is coming and you will see opportunities you might otherwise miss. Pessimism and cynicism won't help us.
If you start telling yourself that the people have power and will win, revolutionary change becomes possible. Liberation begins inside of you
Supplements and garlic won’t cure the common cold, despite what the BBC say
The BBC reported on home remedies to fight the common cold – but what they gave us were weak, biased, and p-hacked studies
Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a way of relieving your pain. They worked, sort of. People who bought and used Perkins Tractors
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The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen
The most-cited example of the powerful placebo is Henry Beecher using saline instead of morphine... except, it likely never happened
Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone
Placebo surgeries do not work – if a surgery performs no better than placebo, it means that operation doesn't work, not that placebos are powerful
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