Hacker News with Generative AI: Placebo Effect

Sham Surgery (wikipedia.org)
Sham surgery (or placebo surgery) is a faked surgical intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary.
Medicine, Placebo Effect, Medical Research
5 points by airstrike 14 days ago | 0 comments
A Case Against the Placebo Effect (carcinisation.com)
The picture that emerges is that a placebo pill has almost no effect when administered by researchers who do not care about the placebo effect, but the exact same pill has an enormous effect larger than all existing treatments when administered by a researcher who really wants the placebo effect to be real. The most parsimonious explanation is that it is the research practices, rather than the placebo.
Science, Research, Psychology, Placebo Effect
83 points by Luc 174 days ago | 91 comments