> 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.
Stopped reading right here because it is nonsense. Antidepressant researchers would love nothing more than the 30-50% placebo response rate to go away and yet there it is, competing with whatever tiny effect their pill does.
Stopped reading right here because it is nonsense. Antidepressant researchers would love nothing more than the 30-50% placebo response rate to go away and yet there it is, competing with whatever tiny effect their pill does.