Here’s a nicely done video describing the inherent weirdness of the “Placebo Effect”:
Listening to scientists you tend to get the feeling that they find the placebo effect to be something pathological – perhaps a knee-jerk materialist reaction to something effective arriving simply out of a belief – and thus to be eliminated if at all possible. When it’s said that “such-and-such only works due to a placebo effect”, should it matter more that it has no ‘scientific’ basis, or does it matter more that it works? An interesting question…what do you think?
