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  • For those interested in the history, psychology and neuroscience of the placebo effect, you could do a lot worse than check out Placebo by cognitive scientist and Mind Hacks contributor Dylan Evans.

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  • For those interested in the history, psychology and neuroscience of the placebo effect, you could do a lot worse than check out Placebo by cognitive scientist and Mind Hacks contributor Dylan Evans.

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  • Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo, or to expunge it from his Medical Dictionary.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo, or to expunge it from his Medical Dictionary.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • There is this thing called 'Placebo' - and it is a * real* medicinal effect.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • We present a faux commercial for "Placebo" - a drug that does nothing and makes no claims at all.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Add in Placebo as T. Rex stand-ins The Flaming Creatures covering Rex’s “20th Century Boy,” and you’ve got the most authentic “fake” rock band soundtrack ever.

    Top 10 Fictitious Bands in Movies » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • Add in Placebo as T. Rex stand-ins The Flaming Creatures covering Rex’s “20th Century Boy,” and you’ve got the most authentic “fake” rock band soundtrack ever.

    Top 10 Fictitious Bands in Movies » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • Yesterday, the New York Times reported on a new product for children: a cherry-flavored, chewable sugar pill being marketed by a mom-and-pop operation called the Placebo Store under the name Obecalp.

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  • These were commonly known as Placebo and Dirige (hence our

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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  • Many people think that the placebo effect is "all in the head," but that is no more true than that people's physiological responses to what they think is alcohol or a drug are only in their head. People can be conditioned "to respond to placebos through repeated administrations of active drugs" ~Skeptic's Dictionary

    January 3, 2010