 smalltowngrl
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
 10 Posts
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Saturday, October 08, 2011 6:59:19 AM
My dad swares placebos don't work on him and that people they work on are just stupid......... He has been taking placebo pain pills........ I just sit back and laugh. Cuz they make him feel better lol |
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 Musuko42
Male, 18-29, Europe
2091 Posts
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Friday, October 07, 2011 2:03:09 AM
Just a clarification here: feeling better does not mean curing the problem.
A placebo can help with the pain of a disease, but can it also cure the disease that is causing the pain?
I'd like to see some studies on that. |
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 Quackor
Male, 18-29, S. America
2665 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:54:47 PM
thats evolutions way to screw with us... helping the idiots. |
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 doran127
Male, 13-17, Canada
46 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:58:07 AM
repost |
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morimacil123
Male, 18-29, Europe
142 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:10:49 AM
"For a pill to be sold it has to out do (by a fair bit) a placebo in tests"
Dunno the regulations of whatever country you live in. But in switzerland and france for example, Homeopathy is really common.
Homeopathy, is simply a placebo. However, since the effects of placebo are based on ppl believing it works, selling a placebo marketed as "placebo" would defeat the whole principle. Thus they name it Homeopathy instead, and market that.
And I can assure you its huge here, pharmacies often contain tons of them, sometimes more than actual drugs, we have ads for them on TV, in the street, and so on. |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25558 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:16:42 AM
Placebo means fake?
So, Pam Andesond has placeboobs? |
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 mal_BB
Male, 18-29, Europe
1223 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:29:01 AM
@Finker; yeah, to me religion is both a placebo and a narcotic at the same time. It's not really there, but if you believe in it, it can be addictive and have powerful effects on you. |
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NILE12
Male, 18-29, Europe
157 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:01:46 AM
This part of the reason why being depressed makes being depressed hard. |
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 Finker
Male, 40-49, Europe
480 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 5:45:30 AM
Seeing this makes me think religion is a placebo. It works for those that believe in it. |
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 TheJigsaw
Male, 18-29, Europe
43 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 5:35:44 AM
For a pill to be sold it has to out do (by a fair bit) a placebo in tests |
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 JoshT
Male, 18-29, Europe
56 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 5:24:25 AM
DeanoBoz. I think when they do the tests for these things they use a double blind randomised test or something. Meaning neither the patient nor the doctor know who is getting which treatment, the test groups are split into two and only the drug company know who is receiving which treatment. Something to do with the ethics of making a doctor prescribe something that has no active chemicals in it (so they may feel as though they aren't giving the best care possible).
I know that doesn't count for the part of this film where he says placebo vs. placebo trials, but perhaps the doctors nor the patients know that neither is a real drug, only the drugs companies carrying out the testing know. Not 100% sure though! |
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andybme
Male, 50-59, Western US
289 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 5:09:24 AM
The problem is that you're still being charged the same amount for a placebo at the pharmacy. That smacks of fraud IMHO. |
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 DeanoBoz
Male, 40-49, Canada
195 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 4:54:03 AM
So, my question is, "Are doctors prescribing placebos, knowing that they are placebos?" The answer must be "Yes". So how is it that "what meds are actually placebos" hasn't EXPLODED on the web during the information age, therefore KILLING the placebo effect? |
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 venners77
Male, 30-39, Europe
31 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 3:48:21 AM
There's some awesome descriptions of experiments on the placebo effect in Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science"- a great book. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 3:23:02 AM
reposts are not placebos... thats silly talk |
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 MrAtari
Male, 30-39, Europe
1075 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 3:15:06 AM
Apple products are placebo's |
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 Phanthom_
Female, 18-29, Europe
59 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 2:58:55 AM
Our minds create the medicine..This only shows that our minds are much more powerful than we give it credit for. Doesn't this mean that we can heal ourselves by using our minds..in theory? In that case, what do we need medicine for anyway? WAKE UP |
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 Thetas
Male, 18-29, Western US
1536 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:48:29 AM
tiny.cc/9xkfi |
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:16:26 AM
@xbx214, Yeah pretty much, I played a messed up joke on a friend in high school. He was kind of dumb so it was easier. But I gave him a antacid from the school nurse and after he ate it I told him it was some hardcore psychadelic drug and proceeded to mess with him, like all our friends would move our mouths like we were talking but no one was making a sound. Anyway he ended up freaking out and crying and left school early. Fun times. |
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intrigid
Male, 18-29, Canada
877 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:32:12 PM
And there you have the entire homeopathy / naturopathy industry explained in one neat little video. |
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 CaptainPabst
Male, 18-29, Western US
1253 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:53:11 PM
Reposts are placebos |
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 Kaagan
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1320 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:18:43 PM
repost |
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 xbx214
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
566 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:50:01 PM
Are you inplying that if I take a placebo thinking im going to become high as poo on shrooms, It will happen or my brain will make it happen? |
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 xelous
Male, 18-29, Western US
2535 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:11:25 PM
@ Ajikan, haha, you smoked the wrong pile.
Weed should never be brown |
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 Ajikan
Male, 18-29, Europe
1538 Posts
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 6:21:21 PM
Placebos don't work on me.
Picked some shrooms in my garden I thought was liberty caps.
I got no placebo high. Nothing at all, the mushrooms I picked I really thought were what they weren't. I later found out they just looked like the ones I was after because of how young they were when I picked them. (No harm done)
And once I smoked some mixing herb I thought I had put some brown in. Got mad that it didn't do poo, but later saw I had smoked the wrong pile.
Don't know about pharmaceuticals, as I don't trust them. Didn't take aspiring even when I had killer headaches. Because I just don't want to, my body would go all soft on me if I pampered it. I think that's why I hardly ever get headaches now. Brain knows better then to whine to my pain center. Hurp da durp derp. |
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