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Published June 13, 2010

Let’s be honest about placebo
Rather than dismissing treatments that use placebo as hocus pocus, we should learn what we can from this powerful effect Though it’s rarely treated as a religious issue, the alternative medicine debate has a lot in common with the God versus science wrangle. Just as religious belief is scoffed at by atheists, so “traditional healer” services, while providing comfort and relief for many, are …