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#3 The Placebo Effect  

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Avatar Image  by MaledictCloak 6 months ago Member (Level 5): 2,152 points     |    Comments 2 Comments

"Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away."

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Skrrrriti 6 months ago

it is truly amazing, and one of the main reasons quack medicine persists

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Goliath 2 months ago

So what is it? There was no chemical added to the experimente-es body that caused them to feel less pain. In these cases it can't be "chemistry therefor result".

It is a mysterious field for now.

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