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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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Phony
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Cure
Get
Diseases
Placebo
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Works
Medical
I became a human placebo.
Bobby Sherman
Became
Human
Placebo
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch
Relationship
Critical
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
Technology
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Meditation
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Thousands Of Years
One-Way
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Give
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Over
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Know
Look
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Understand
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Any
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Happens
Placebo
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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
Love
Science
Problem
Big
Everyone
Reliance
Vitamins
About
Major
Like
Most
Major Problem
Gets
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
Me
World
Beginning
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Other
Writers
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Placebo
Novelist
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