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Research shows that various components of the placebo effect – for example, the paraphernalia of care (pills and syringes) and the patient-provider relationship – can be added incrementally in a manner analogous to dose dependence (the higher the dose, the greater the effect).

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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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