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29/10/2015 - Why are placebos getting more effective?

29/10/2015

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By William Kremer   BBC World Service   20 October 2015    

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials determine whether they perform better than inactive pills known as "placebos". Research shows that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiveness between real drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the US than elsewhere. Are Americans really more susceptible to placebo effects, or is something else going on?   more...
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"Time is a way to say when something happens. That can only be said in relation to something else. In itself it has no meaning... I would say time belongs to those things of which we have learned that we can only make relational statements. So, I would say there is no absolute time. It’s only in relation to something else.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Anton Zeilinger (Quantum Physicist)
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