Cases Quote by Matthieu Ricard

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…

— Ben Goldacre

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

I take, like, 9,000 supplements every morning. I don't know if it's completely placebo or not, but I'm super committed to these supplements: like,…

— Samin Nosrat

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 - pills…

— Richard Dawkins

“When conventional medicine fails, when we must confront pain and death, of course we are open to other prospects for hope. And, after all,…

— Carl Sagan

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

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect…

— Bruce H. Lipton

You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…

— Charles Jencks

Bearing in mind that homeopathic remedies are generally so diluted that they contain no active remedy, it seems obvious they can be nothing more…

— Simon Singh

“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the benefits of…

— Paige Singleton

“Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to…

— Irving Kirsch

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

— Brian Molko