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What is the placebo effect, really?

One day Mr A walked into the emergency room where he just barely was able to tell the nurse on duty that he’d taken all of his pills before he collapsed at her feet. In his pocket was a jar of pills from a local clinical trial—but with no information about what exactly they were. The medical team eventually figured out that he was in the control group. He’d taken a whole jar of placebos. . .

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