Placebo Quotes

24 quotes by 19 authors

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers — J.P. Moreland
God is a placebo for your own mortality. — Robert Barron
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 ego… — Kenny Smith
Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to… — Marcia Angell
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance… — Ben Goldacre
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko
Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo — Brian Molko
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 effects… — 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
Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real? — George Carlin
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the… — Tom Vanderbilt
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko
I'm addicted to placebos. — Steven Wright
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live… — Edmund Clowney
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos,… — Charles Jencks
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed… — Bernie Siegel
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love… — Michael Specter
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine,… — Irving Kirsch

Who Wrote These Placebo Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 24 Placebo Quotes as follows: