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#placebo — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. This is a homeopathic meme.

    There isn't a single molecule of an actual meme here.

    But someone will laugh due to the placebo effect.

    #humor #meme #placebo #homeopathy

  2. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Lecture (1842), “Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions,” Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homeopathy #medicine #body #holistic #holism #mind #placebo #suggestibility

  3. On #XFiles, #CSM /says/ he artificially impregnated #Scully with William. CSM is also a fucking dirty liar.

    #Mulder had a vision from #placebo and stopped a potential bombing. Scully is an abductee with alien DNA.

    William is Scully & Mulder's son