• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    People wanna tell me there’s no such thing as magic in a world where The Placebo Effect exists. Bro’s got a low level healing spell that grows stronger the more he believes it works.

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      6 months ago

      I agree. However, to me, something feels wrong about companies making money selling a product to people with the promise that they work when they don’t actually do anything in and of themselves. It’s false advertising plus taking money out of people’s pockets.

  • katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    The funny thing is that the “extra strength” placebos likely have a better chance of working. The more elaborate and involved the placebo is, the greater the chance of it actually working even if you know it is a placebo. Our minds are weird. As always, I’m too lazy to look up the actual study so I don’t know if it was a quality study or not.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I haven’t read the study of course. Only read about it. Which makes the claim above even more dubious. But hey, this is the future, who has the time to fact check anymore?