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Description: One of nature's many attempts to evolve a crab.
One of nature's many attempts to evolve a crab.
Concerning placebos and the “placebo effect,” there is a distinction that I have struggled to articulate, a distinction I have also noticed highly intelligent humans failing to make. I recently found an excellent explanation of the distinction in a paper questioning the meaning of recent “open-label placebo” trials , and thought it was worth a short piece explaining why it’s important.
Here is the distinction as the authors put it, with citations removed:
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