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Placebo Quotes

I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

Steven Wright
Matter, Quitting, Placebo
"When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.

Bruce H. Lipton
Powerful, Healing, Placebo Effect
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

J.P. Moreland
Emotional, Crutches, Placebo

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

Jon Stewart
Placebo Effect, Missing, Golden Girls

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Robert Barron
God, Mortality, Placebo

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Brian Molko
Members, Sexiest, Placebo

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Irving Kirsch
Placebo Effect, Doctors, Patient

Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What's more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect.

Clair Davies
Pain, Confused, Placebo Effect

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

Matthieu Ricard
Placebo Effect, Years, Cures
Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

Irving Kirsch
Pain, Placebo Effect, Research
"Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.

I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

Kat Duff
Placebo Effect, Long, Magic

There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Chris Kilham
Placebo

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