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The imagination effect: A history of placebo power

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By Rosie Mestel Verified
| Freethink
A patient swallows a sugar pill that lacks active medicine, or undergoes “surgery” in which incisions are made but the therapeutic procedure is not performed. And yet pain falls away, nausea recedes, mood lifts. Sometimes, the improvements were going to happen anyway. But other times, what’s at play is the power of the mind to influence the body.
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The Imagination Effect: A History of Placebo Power

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By Rosie Mestel Verified
| Discover Magazine Verified
A patient swallows a sugar pill that lacks active medicine, or undergoes “surgery” in which incisions are made but the therapeutic procedure is not performed. And yet pain falls away, nausea recedes, mood lifts. Sometimes, the improvements were going to happen anyway. But other times, what’s at play is the power of the mind to influence the body.
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Don't dazzle us with space billboards

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By Rosie Mestel Verified
| New Scientist Verified
By ROSIE MESTEL Astronomers, environmentalists and consumer groups have joined forces to fight a plan to put a giant advertisement in space. The ‘environmental billboard’ is a venture dreamt up by Space Marketing, a company in Georgia that recently placed an advertisement for an Arnold Schwarzenegger film on the side of a NASA rocket.
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