The Weird Science Of The Placebo Effect Keeps Getting More Interesting - Vox

Placebos work. And not just when they're surreptitiously slipped to unwitting patients. Even when patients know it's a placebo, there's a benefical effect. Then Ted Kaptchuk went ahead and futzed with open-label and blinded studies to find the benefits become even more curious. It's not that hard to believe after Brian Resnick makes sense of why something that is nothing does anything at all. Meanwhile there's a headline which is kinda obvious, even to skeptics, about how Telekinesis Is Possible, We Just Need Technology To Do It. Learn all about waldos, servos, and brain implants from M.J. Banias and how science hopes to tap our inner potential. A touch more weird, by a country mile, is Undine's recap of The Case Of The Levitating Butler. The tale harkens to encounters with The Good Folk, with a healthy dollop of ghostery, and the medicinal qualities of... plaintain juice? (CS)

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