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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…

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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even…
Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you…
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten…
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself…
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and…
Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to…
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is…
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the…
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is…
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing…
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles…

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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
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… — 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… — 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,… — 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.… — 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… — Tom Vanderbilt

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