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Fact and Fiction of Health and Wellness with Dr. Nick Tiller

StarTalk Radio

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The Limits of the Placebo Effect

There's a limit where the placebo effect just goes away. In certain cases, your body will heal itself. We have not evolved logic and reason to deal with bad science, commercialism, social media,. fake news, rampant capitalism and commercialism. The whole point of this is to exploit our pre-existing biases to make purchases that we don't necessarily need.

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