thomblake comments on Controlling your inner control circuits - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 29 June 2009 01:08:00PM 1 point [-]

The closest thing to a sugar pill available is known-bad advice,

One example of a control group in a psychological study (can't find reference): researchers compared freudian psychoanalysis to merely sitting there and listening.
sugar has physiological effects, so you can't really assume a sugar pill is neutral with no side-effects

Comment author: wedrifid 04 July 2009 10:53:51PM 0 points [-]

sugar has physiological effects, so you can't really assume a sugar pill is neutral with no side-effects

And when you are testing the psychological effects of urea based salts you can't really assume lithium salts are neutral with no side-effects.