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The Skeptics Guide #908 - Dec 3 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Pain and Its Psychological Components

Nurti: Placebos by definition are inert. This is actually a bunch of nonspecific effects that we have a hard time identifying. Nurti: The effect we're just going and seeing a healthcare provider, just being enrolled in a trial. And then remember when we're talking about pain, pain has a massive psychological component to it. It's incredibly subjective.

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