There are many ways to use the placebo effect without lying. A standard formulation would be "A lot of my patients have seen real improvements after taking homeopathic tablets - is that something you'd like to try?" And of course "real" medicine uses the placebo effect as well - it doesn't stop working just because the treatment has an objective effect of its own.
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Date: June 4th, 2010 01:56 pm (UTC)From:A standard formulation would be
"A lot of my patients have seen real improvements after taking homeopathic tablets - is that something you'd like to try?"
And of course "real" medicine uses the placebo effect as well - it doesn't stop working just because the treatment has an objective effect of its own.