cross-posted from: https://wolfballs.com/post/8178
I've seen a study where people were taking a placebo and they even knew it was a placebo and it helped them recover from various illnesses: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-know-placebo-201607079926
A placebo is "a pill or substance that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no physical effect on the patient."
This is the power of the mind, so to me the "vaccines" and ivermectin, if nothing else are acting as placebo for a lot of people on each side. But couldn't you literally just take a sugar pill or something inert and tell yourself it's healing you and have some kind of effect from it? I've been doing this and, well, it's not hurting me.
Couldn't placebos be used more widely for any disease, including "covid"?
realcaseyrollins 2 years ago
No! What is wrong with you?
Placebos are used in clinical trials specifically because they have no effect, and they compare that to the effect of the drug in question.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
in trial runs with placebo, sometimes people have reported healing from disease when given a placebo, simply because they believed they were receiving medicine, which implies that placebos can heal people from various diseases, and this is true even when they know they are being given a placebo
realcaseyrollins 2 years ago
Emphasis on the word "sometimes". The original question was "Is Placebo A Treatment For All Disease?". Not "Is Placebo A Treatment For Disease Sometimes?".