evand comments on Fallacies of reification - the placebo effect - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Morendil 13 September 2012 07:03AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (55)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: evand 13 September 2012 01:15:45PM 1 point [-]

There are a multitude of such effects listed in The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect, which is a truly amazing video on the subject. Unfortunately, it doesn't dive into details and doesn't seem to have much in the way of citations. I would agree that the effects it describe cause problems for the argument in the article.