You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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 is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko 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
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
