the placebo effect does not exist

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh great. It turns out that the placebo effect is not even real. What
have I got to believe in anymore?

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/health/24PLAC.htm

Now that the placebo effect has been proven false by Danish
researchers, we can reflect back on what it meant. Supposedly, 35% of
sick people would improve if they were given a sugar pill and told it
was medicine. Now we learn that that doesn't happen. The fact that we
believed it indicates we were susceptible to claims that there is
widespread hypochondria amongst the population. According to the
elites, people's complaints are not to be taken seriously. The placebo
effect was merely a reflection of this ideology. Goodbye, placebo
effect.

Andrew Hagen
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