Monday, September 23, 2019

A world-renowned placebo researcher asks, “Does placebo research boost pseudoscience?”

Professor Fabrizio Benedetti is the most famous and almost certainly also the most influential researcher investigating the physiology of placebo effects. In a recent commentary, he asks whether placebo research is fueling quackery, as quacks co-opt its results. The answer to that question is certainly yes. A better question is: How do supporters of science counter the placebo narrative promoted by quacks, in which placebos represent the "power of the mind to heal the body"?

from Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-world-renowned-placebo-researcher-asks-does-placebo-research-boost-pseudoscience/

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