Question for those that welcome the placebo effect: does it worry you that if placebos can affect you strongly, that fact is a sign that you are broken in some fundamental way?
I mean, you have emotional distress, and straightforward ways of dealing it do not work, so you have to pay some authority figure to prescribe a placebo. Does that not make you want to investigate how deep your brokenness goes?
(Actually, I think that the placebo effect is not strong enough and does not apply to enough real-world situations to be worth paying much attention to and that there are just a lot of bad studies in some fields.)
I mean, you have emotional distress, and straightforward ways of dealing it do not work, so you have to pay some authority figure to prescribe a placebo. Does that not make you want to investigate how deep your brokenness goes?
(Actually, I think that the placebo effect is not strong enough and does not apply to enough real-world situations to be worth paying much attention to and that there are just a lot of bad studies in some fields.)