Surprised that placebos treat depression just as well as expensive, side-effect-ridden anti-depressant pills? Why?
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Surprised that placebos treat depression just as well as expensive, side-effect-ridden anti-depressant pills? Why?
Start here.
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December 27th, 2011 at 10:47AM
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/how-common-sense-fails-us/3715136
December 27th, 2011 at 11:08AM
I dunno. My antidepressants were cheap ($4 a month) and effective. Even if they were just a placebo, I’m OK with a $4 a month placebo that saved my life.
December 27th, 2011 at 1:15PM
$4 to you, maybe. It is unlikely that was their actual cost.
If placebos are found to really work, we’ll be able to undercut even that price!
December 27th, 2011 at 5:04PM
Probably won’t work so well if you undercut the price. There’s also research that shows that in blind taste tests of wine, people who were told a wine costs more $ liked it better than those who were told that (the same wine) cost less.
December 28th, 2011 at 2:52AM
UD, why did you mark this article with the ‘march of science’ tag?
Clearly this is not a proper scientific endeavor, but more of a ‘as close as we can get under certain constraints’ type of undertaking. The question is, and always will be, how close is close enough?