... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate…

“The pain is due to TMS, not to a structural abnormality. • The direct reason for the pain is mild oxygen deprivation. • TMS…

— John E. Sarno

“Time is a placebo medication, it only helps you if you believe it can, it only heals you if you let it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“The gun, my young friend, is that dark cousin of the placebo, the nocebo. If a placebo provides false benefits, the nocebo imparts false…

— Daryl Gregory

“Subliminal cuing and unconscious priming influence numerous behaviors unrelated to this book. People think potato chips taste better when hearing crunching sounds. We like…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in…

— Robert Whitaker

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they…

— Michael Specter

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the…

— Kenny Smith

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…

— Charles Jencks

Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative…

— Richard Dawkins

“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may presently have.…

— Joe Dispenza

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

— Anonymous

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body…

— Larry Dossey

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

— Chris Kilham

“Recognize that your attention is the most valuable thing you can ever own, and you alone have the ultimate power to choose where to…

— Sol Luckman