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On your reaction to "a way to reject the placebo effect", it's important to distinguish what we are trying to do. If all I care about is fixing a given problem for myself, I don't care whether I solve it by placebo effect or by a repeatable hack.
If I care about figuring out how my brain works, then I will need a way to reject or identify the placebo effect.
There's also the question of to what extent the placebo effect is actually meaningful when "causing effects in the mind" is the goal.