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A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
Charles Jencks
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Cure
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Medical
I became a human placebo.
Bobby Sherman
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Placebo
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch
Relationship
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Effect
Placebo
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Meditation
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There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
Michael Specter
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Big
Everyone
Reliance
Vitamins
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Major
Like
Most
Major Problem
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Upset
Placebo
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker
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World
Beginning
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Writers
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Placebo
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