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#19 Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Why Medicine Really Shouldn't Taste Yucky?

If you want people to believe that something has medicinal or psychotropic powers, it has to taste a bit weird. I don't think the placebe effect works very well with neuropin meltlets. And my suspicion s always been. They're a bit too damn tasty for me to believe they're an analgesic. Has anybody done research into the taste of placebe ays, like, how well we e?

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