The Non-Posebo Effect of Lavender

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How do you know it's not placebo, by the way? But that's a really interesting question. So I think that a lot of people have ideas about placebo that I think are kind of not quite right. If this is something that like almost never would occur yet, it seems to reliably happen after you take this pill, then that is, I think, quite strong evidence that it's not a placebo effect.

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Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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