DanArmak comments on Study shows placebos can work even if you know it's a placebo - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 24 December 2010 10:00:12PM 11 points [-]

Well it's obviously not homeopathy, since you can clearly distinguish between a piece of paper saying "homeopathic remedy" and a piece of paper saying "ordinary water".

What they need to do is write "homeopathic remedy" on some paper, pulp it with clean paper in a 1/1,000,000 proportion, make recycled paper out of it, and give the patient some of that recycled paper. Without writing anything on it.