Marlon comments on Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 20 October 2015 02:51:11AM *  3 points [-]

Placebo doesn't affect objective outcomes anyway.

Elaborate? I'm pretty sure that's not correct, at the very least when it comes to pain, immune system things, autonomic stuff, and possibly some musculoskeletal stuff.

Comment author: Marlon 01 November 2015 05:21:10PM 0 points [-]

Only few people are interested in studying placebos. However, there are a few papers (Gotzsche is one of the few). - A review - An update to the review, for reproducibility

Pain (or nausea) isn't an objective outcome anyway.