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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I'm not sure it's defensive. You posted something saying, in essence, "I don't know shit, but you're all fooling yourselves."
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Only if you think benefiting from a placebo effect is "fooling yourselves."
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The state of mind with which I approached it really goes against the placebo effect
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Honestly, I do not know if a pre-existing belief in effecicacy is required for a placebo effect.
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as does the long, long, long history of this kind of treatment.
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See, that's where you lose me. Lots of beliefs survive for a long time, and survival may say more of the lack of anything better.
