Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News
Interesting 'light' read on the subject. I wonder if this will have any trickle down into high end audio, which is highly dependent on this effect...
Interesting 'light' read on the subject. I wonder if this will have any trickle down into high end audio, which is highly dependent on this effect...
I think this is wonderful news.
I use the placebo effect to help people heal.
It is far better to heal from the placebo effect than to die from an incurable disease
Yes, this could help high end audio.
But, high quality sound is better when available
I use the placebo effect to help people heal.
It is far better to heal from the placebo effect than to die from an incurable disease
Yes, this could help high end audio.
But, high quality sound is better when available
Can a treatment proven effective still be called a placebo?
My cynical, not clinical, perspective is the answer probably lies somewhere in changes to procedure creating a bias towards positive results. Not that big pharma would ever do such a thing....
My cynical, not clinical, perspective is the answer probably lies somewhere in changes to procedure creating a bias towards positive results. Not that big pharma would ever do such a thing....
This is very against big pharma, as if a drug is no more effective than placebo it can't be licensed. Which is good.
I would assume changes tending towards a positive bias would also lift the DUT results. Guess it theoretically depends on whether both receive the same enhancement, conspiratorially speaking.
Yes, doctors in general seems to confirm that placebo is a surprisingly strong drug. I would suggest that placebo should be secretly injected in the drinking water so that every citizen will enjoy a better and healthier life without even know anything about it.
Accordingly, gold plated fuses should secretly be mounted inside Krell amplifiers in order to make them even better.
Accordingly, gold plated fuses should secretly be mounted inside Krell amplifiers in order to make them even better.
I don't think you get it. For a placebo to work the subject has to be induced into believing that a treatment has been applied. Secret treatments, by definition, cannot elicit a placebo type response.
The original paper doesn't attribute much to higher positives:
Increasing placebo responses over time in U.S. clinical trials of neuropathic pain. - PubMed - NCBI
The problem with placebos is tied to the fundamentals of QED.
That this place is not what you seem to think it is.
Newtonian realism may think, believe and thus project a reality that tries to displace QED, but in such a case it is merely obeying the underlying circular lock of QED on the reality formation process.
Those that think, and believe and thus project another reality will actually receive and live within that full reality as well, as that is what the circular lock of QED on the reality forming process will bring for them.
Realism, all the way to multidimensional majik is what you get in a QED based universe such as you 'exist' in ---and are of.
It's the projection and connection that predicts.... that predicates it into existence.
Sucks to be a fear and anger filled realist in such a scenario, but there you go. Deal with it.
That this place is not what you seem to think it is.
Newtonian realism may think, believe and thus project a reality that tries to displace QED, but in such a case it is merely obeying the underlying circular lock of QED on the reality formation process.
Those that think, and believe and thus project another reality will actually receive and live within that full reality as well, as that is what the circular lock of QED on the reality forming process will bring for them.
Realism, all the way to multidimensional majik is what you get in a QED based universe such as you 'exist' in ---and are of.
It's the projection and connection that predicts.... that predicates it into existence.
Sucks to be a fear and anger filled realist in such a scenario, but there you go. Deal with it.
The efficacy of a placebo treatment (in tablet form) has been proven to increase with the size of the tablet and also the colour. In particular a large red tablet is shown to be very effective. A degree of bitterness of taste might increase the effect further. One can assume that placebo treatments given by injection will be more effective when delivered by a large syringe with a big fat needle, perhaps with a chrome body rather than a small discrete syringe.
One could always try the homeopathic method of giving efficacy to a placebo pill by building the hype with stories of just sub infinite dilution and like treating like.
Whatever your fancy, you have to buy into it first with susceptibility!
One could always try the homeopathic method of giving efficacy to a placebo pill by building the hype with stories of just sub infinite dilution and like treating like.
Whatever your fancy, you have to buy into it first with susceptibility!
Well, that's the thing about it Stu, placebo effects, seeming 'placebo madness' would be the result as more and more of the population comes to terms with what reality and thus QED actually are, what it means.
"And here's no one on the rack but me"
"And here's no one on the rack but me"
Yes but the preloading is effective, truly effective... as it is all about energy connecting with energy, spooky action at a distance, wave particle definition, the observer effect, pure 110% QED.
The full and actual reality of the properly done double slit experiment, as expanded into the gross averaged Newtonian world.
Underlying Newtonian perception, is the fundamental driving force of Newtonian space, which is QED. Underlying it all is QED. So, if the person believes and projects it well enough... spells, or placebos, actually truly and fundamentally work!
Which really sucks for realism science, for factual science as, in QED, no facts of any kind exist. It's all potential, all theory, all projection and feedback of projection from other formative aspects in connectivity. It sucks the big one for realism, as the whole farking edifice falls down. But not really, as if they believe and project that it is real, it is!
If they understand QED, then it can be anything, including their projection of grouped beliefs. Other grouped beliefs, have their own actual reality, and both are valid and real, even if they disagree with one another.
So, sucks to be a hardcore realist.... when confronted with QED.
If one is susceptible to believing and projecting scientific realism, scientific rationalism, and that sort of world, then that is what the underlying reality of formative space-time called QED, will give you, what will form into reality with and for you.
if you think of someone who believes in some given thing, some so called snake oil theory, or whatever, then you may think of that person as being "somebody's bitch".
Under the known aspects of QED and how it works, anyone who proposes follows and projects into the world, into formative reality... the condition of 'scientific rationalism', is also, by the rules of QED, by the very definition of QED....they are also "somebody's bitch".
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Silly question, how many will admit to taking a couple of aspirin/advil/whatever and feeling better in seconds?
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