Ep. 14: The Science of Recovery with Christie Aschwanden
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The Placebo Effect
There's good evidence that placebo shots are more effective than placebo pills. I actually wrote a story for 538 about placebo surgery and the effect of placebo in surgeries. Surgery is so ritualistic, but it turns out that a lot of the orthopedic surgeries that we do seem to actually be working by placebo effects.
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