Study: Snake Oil Wildly Popular with Health Professionals
Truthiness and paternalism are virulent diseases that undermine every institution they infect:
50% of U.S. Doctors Secretly Dose Their Patients—With the Placebo Effect
The study found that most of the doctors who prescribe placebo treatments typically describe them to patients as “a potentially beneficial medicine or treatment not typically used for their condition.”



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