Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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People act like "the placebo effect" can do anything, but what it's actually been proven to do is pretty limited.

For one, few studies that are "placebo controlled" have a control group, so there's no way to isolate the effect. And many of the things people think placebo effects have very little evidence.

The book is Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine, by Dylan Evans. Available on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B00HY5EZLE?tag=kadavyinc-20