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Recent research on the placebo effect has demonstrated that the clinical encounter alone – without the provision of any “real” medicine – can alleviate pain, improve sleep, relieve depression, and ameliorate the symptoms of a wide variety of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, Parkinson’s disease, heart ailments, and migraine.

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And of course, there's the placebo effect, one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine.

And this has been demonstrated in a whole raft of fascinating studies comparing one kind of placebo against another.

So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo, where one half of the people get the real treatment, and the other half get placebo.

So firstly, trials against placebo: everybody thinks a trial should be a comparison of your new drug against placebo.

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