“Hope alone is a placebo, that can lead to grief For hope without effort, seldom brings relief” — Gil Gonzales Copy Share Image
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Placebo from the garden of Eden. Rub it on bone watch the skin grow. Blissful cocktail makes a god from heathens. Changing… — Angelspit Copy Share Image
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works! — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“With a drug trial, everyone gets the exact same pill or the exact same placebo. With therapy, you can’t separate the tools… — Anonymous 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
“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced… — Sol Luckman 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
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill,… — Ben Goldacre 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
“One clear-cut fact does, however, emerge: placebos, prescribed for a paranoid schizophrenic by his authority referent, had served to inhibit for approximately… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When conventional medicine fails, when we must confront pain and death, of course we are open to other prospects for hope. And,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
“The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes… — Christian Jarrett 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
“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
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker 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'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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/ff2/brian-molko-11591_believe_interviewer-what-do-you-get-up-to-in-rea_1445209.jpg)
