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Ars Technica | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 In depression treatment trials, placebo effect is growing stronger

As with placebo pills, time is making placebo magnetic stimulation more effective.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/in-depression-treatment-trials-placebo-effect-is-growing-stronger/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Nazo | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @872ab8e1 It's amazing how effective placebos can be I admit.  Even if you tell people something is a placebo sometimes it still has an effect.

I just wish there wasn't a whole high-profit market built up around selling placebos marketed as not placebos.  I still think we'd be best off with some kind of official placebo products, but like they say it in the fine print.  It wouldn't work for some, but then we wouldn't have people thinking they can prevent the flu by taking vitamin C and zinc.
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Sudden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @872ab8e1 Huh weird.  Though wouldn't it make more sense to say that maybe the nature of depression has changed over the past twenty years?  idk
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Alistair | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @872ab8e1 probably what is happening here is that researchers are getting better at finding the confounding factors that make a treatment appear to work better than it does and moving them into the placebo arm.