I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Recognize that your attention is the most valuable thing you can ever own, and you alone have the ultimate power to choose… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“The gun, my young friend, is that dark cousin of the placebo, the nocebo. If a placebo provides false benefits, the nocebo… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
“Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery and confusion. Admitting to relishing… — Chloe Govan Copy Share Image
“Subliminal cuing and unconscious priming influence numerous behaviors unrelated to this book. People think potato chips taste better when hearing crunching sounds.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Whether we like it or not, we’re walking placebo and nocebo generators, able to create health miracles or disasters (usually without even… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
![“Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to…” quote by Brian Molko](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff2/brian-molko-11591_believe_interviewer-what-do-you-get-up-to-in-rea_1445209.png)
