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The Skeptics Guide #935 - Jun 10 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Opposite of a Placebo Effect

It's one of the variables, the actual variables that's measured in like psychological intervention. Like it's not considered a placebo effect at all. It's considered an active treatment effect is how well you get along with your therapist and how much you trust them. So it's just because we don't measure it that way in drug trials. Right. Drug trials are so, and that also gets to what is the purpose of the trial. Not all trials are efficacy trials. But there are other things that go into effectiveness other than efficacy. And you need other research to address those questions.

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