#placebo — Public Fediverse posts
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🎵 Placebo - Bruise Pristine▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/671685/ Prednisone may impair bone health in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy #Biomarker #blood #Bone #BoneHealth #Cartilage #children #ClinicalTrial #Collagen #Corticosteroid #DuchenneMuscularDystrophy #education #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #Laboratory #MuscularDystrophy #pharmacy #Placebo #Prednisone #Protein #Research
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I've long suspected that the user created guardrails and context guidelines they are encouraged to put into things like agents.md are an intentional exploitation of the placebo effect as I have worked on LLM technology in the past and this flies in the face of how they actually work. No context can ever significantly change the output of a contextless system.
A study just hit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11988
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"Les rumeurs qui ont changé le monde" : "L'homéopathie est plus efficace qu'un placebo"
Le 27/08/2026 par Alexandra Delbot et son équipe avec Richard Monvoisin, didacticien des sciences et Coline Giard-Rammeloo, doctorante en sociologie à Sciences-Po, spécialisée dans les thérapies alternatives et complémentaires
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/ils-ont-change-le-monde/l-homeopathie-est-plus-efficace-qu-un-placebo-7893593Inventée à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle par le médecin Samuel Hahnemann, l'#homéopathie promet de soigner grâce à des substances extrêmement diluées.
Malgré l'absence de preuve d'une efficacité supérieure au #placebo, elle continue de convaincre des millions de personnes.
Comment expliquer ce succès ?
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Le #placebo est un excellent ingrédient de la performance sportive (la liste est longue : k-taping, ecarte-nez, textile faussement performant, grigri, slip fétiche)
{Réalisation de ce documentaire futur prix Albert-Londres : #mafille ; écrin : Ablok, la meilleure salle de #Grenoble, de l'univers et du reste}
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When was the earliest study of acupuncture that used sham needles (superficial needles that don’t do anything) to trigger a placebo healing effect? There appears to have been numerous studies on this topic, but the earliest one I found was this https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2005/05/beyond-the-placebo-effect.page from 2005.
I swear I had heard about similar studies in the 1990s. Was I mistaken?
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New full-length mashup - Placebo vs Regurgitator - https://youtu.be/gS_kgjc54NQ - leave a like and a comment while you're there 🥰
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#TIL the rap on "Spite and Malice" is by the singer from She Wants Revenge
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Ein Placebo- oder Nocebo-Effekt entsteht, wenn ein Scheinmedikament ohne Wirkstoff heilende Wirkung oder Nebenwirkungen hervorruft. Ist der Effekt in Studien bewiesen? Wie nutzt Medizin diese Heilkraft? Mehr Infos gibt es hier:📝▶️ https://www.ndr.de/placebo-114.html #placebo #gesundheit
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Placebo’s Brian Molko, Peaches and Nadine Shah cover David Bowie classics at London Southbank Centre ‘Ziggy Stardust’ celebration
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L'équipe #placebo cause cet après midi sur RFI, 16h heure internationale
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Scientists discovered a fascinating trick to feeling like you slept great even if you didn’t
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/placebo-sleep-study-ex1/
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https://www.europesays.com/at/267616/ Scheinfasten bei Morbus Crohn: Neue Evidenz, messbare Effekte und Implikationen für Diagnostik #AI #ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE #AT #Austria #Diagnostik #Entzündung #Fasten #Gesundheit #Health #Immunsystem #KI #KlinischeStudie #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Marker #Mikrobiom #MorbusCrohn #Österreich #Phagentherapie #Placebo #Therapie
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¿Y que es #placebo?, preguntas mientras tomas homeopatía en tu vasito azul… -
Certes, c'est Bfmtv radio, et je n'ai pas voulu y aller. Mais mes collègues Nicolas Pinsault et Léo Druart y sont limpides, sur le #placebo
https://www.bfmtv.com/podcasts/le-podcast-sante/placebo-comment-le-cerveau-influence-notre-perception-de-la-douleur_EN-202607030099.html -
Recensie: Placebo – Placebo RE:CREATED ★★★★
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In 90 healthy older adults, open-label placebos — pills patients knew were fake — improved memory by up to 21.5% and physical performance by 9.2%, matching deceptive placebos. The finding removes the ethical barrier to placebo use: deception isn’t needed. 🔬
https://1ban.news/open-label-placebo-memory-older-adults/
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when I learned about the #placebo effect, I resolved to feel good about eating junk. Probably the worst thing about eating something "bad for me" is my mental state. So I focus on the good. Pleasure is a need. Calories are necessary. Health includes engaging with our whole world. Everything in moderation, including moderation. #positiveReframe
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Placebo - Every You Every Me
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The Placebo Button
The elevator in my building has a door-close button that does nothing. I learned this the way everyone learns it, which is to say I pressed it for years under the impression that it was speeding up my departure. The button lights up. It makes a small click when pressed. It provides every sensory signal of function. What it does not do is close the door any faster than the door was going to close on its own. The elevators in most American buildings installed since 1990 have door-close buttons wired to nothing, because the Americans with Disabilities Act requires the door to stay open long enough for a person using a wheelchair or walker to enter, and the button that overrides that requirement is accessible only to the fire department with a key.
The elevator industry has not hidden this. A 2016 New York Times piece by Christopher Mele quoted Karen Penafiel of the National Elevator Industry confirming that the buttons in non-emergency elevators do not function for ordinary passengers. The buttons remain on the panels because removing them would require rewiring, because passengers expect them, and because a button that does nothing costs less to leave in place than a button that does something. The fire department button works; the button passengers press does not. Both are labeled the same way.
The phenomenon extends well beyond elevators. A February 2004 New York Times piece by Michael Luo, titled “For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button,” reported that of the 3,250 crosswalk buttons in New York City at the time, more than 2,500 functioned as mechanical placebos and only about 750 still worked. The rest were deactivated when the city moved to computerized signal timing in the decades after 1980, and the buttons were kept in place rather than removed because removing them costs more than leaving them attached to nothing. A pedestrian pressing a crosswalk button on Sixth Avenue at Thirty-Fourth Street is performing a gesture. The gesture has no effect on when the light changes. The light changes on a fixed timer that does not know the pedestrian pressed anything.
Office thermostats are the third common case. HVAC contractors working in large commercial buildings have for decades installed decoy thermostats in zones where the actual temperature is controlled from a central building management system. A Wall Street Journal column by Jared Sandberg, who wrote the Journal’s Cubicle Culture column on office life, reported that a significant share of office thermostats were non-functional decoys, installed because building operators had discovered that employees who had a thermostat to adjust reported feeling more comfortable than employees who did not, regardless of whether the thermostat was connected to anything. The decoy thermostat was cheaper than the actual climate complaint.
What unites these three cases is that the placebo button is engineered to produce the sensation of causation without the mechanism of causation. The Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer spent much of her career documenting what she called the illusion of control, the human tendency to overestimate personal influence over outcomes that are actually random or automatic. Her 1975 paper on the subject in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology remains the source text, and the elevator button has become an unintended memorial to her findings. The button is a compliance device. It gets the passenger through fifteen seconds of waiting without becoming the kind of passenger who kicks the door. The crosswalk button operates the same way. The thermostat operates the same way.
The object lesson is small. A button that does nothing is a minor embarrassment in the built environment. The interesting question is where else this logic operates, and the answer is most of civic life.
Public comment periods on federal rulemaking accept submissions from citizens by the hundreds of thousands. Agencies are required to read those submissions and consider them. In the vast majority of cases, the final rule reflects the draft rule. The comment did not change the outcome. Its filing was registered. Citizens who submit receive an acknowledgment. That acknowledgment was the point.
City council meetings in most American municipalities include a public comment segment during which residents address the council for two or three minutes each on matters of local governance. Council members are not required to respond. A council member is also not required to incorporate the comment into deliberation. Votes that follow get decided in committee or caucus before the comment begins. The resident goes home having pressed the button. Its light comes on. That door closes on the timer it was going to close on anyway.
Surveys distributed by employers after reorganizations, by airlines after delays, by hospitals after treatment, by universities after lectures, arrive with the implicit promise that the responses will influence future decisions. Response data gets aggregated and presented in quarterly reports to executives who have already made the next round of decisions. The survey is a button that lights up. No door closes any faster.
Electoral systems with gerrymandered district lines produce outcomes pre-determined by the shape of the district rather than the preferences of the voters. A voter in a district drawn to favor a party by twenty points is pressing a button connected to a timer set six years before the election. Ballots get counted. The vote does not change the outcome. An illusion of control persists, and the citizen who pressed the button walks out of the polling place with the civic sensation of participation.
The placebo button is not a conspiracy. No central authority installed these systems to deceive. An elevator button represents a cost-benefit decision by building owners. A crosswalk button persists as legacy infrastructure nobody retired. Public comment periods exist as procedural requirements written into administrative law in 1946. Gerrymandered districts result from partisan legislatures drawing maps within a legal framework the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to revise. Each placebo button got there through a defensible local decision. The pattern they form together is a democracy where the buttons light up reliably and the doors close on the schedule they were always going to close on.
The dangerous version of this pattern is the one where citizens learn the buttons do nothing and continue pressing them. Compliance does not require belief. The door-close button still gets pressed by passengers who know it does nothing, because pressing it is what one does in an elevator, and because the alternative is standing silent in a small box with a stranger for fifteen seconds. Voting in a gerrymandered district still gets done by voters who know the district will produce the predetermined outcome, because voting is what one does as a citizen, and because the alternative is admitting the system is closed.
The recognition that matters is the one that separates the buttons that work from the buttons that do not, and the organizing that follows is the organizing that rewires the boxes rather than the gesture of pressing. Ballot initiatives that establish independent redistricting commissions are rewiring. Lawsuits that force agencies to respond substantively to public comments are rewiring. Municipal charters that require council members to respond to comment on the record are rewiring. The door-close button in the elevator is a lost cause and not worth the fight. A crosswalk button at Thirty-Fourth Street is not worth the fight either. Ballots and comment periods and council meetings are worth every fight we can bring, because the apparatus behind those buttons is still capable of connection, and the difference between a democracy and an elevator panel is whether the wires on the other side of the panel still reach the doors.
#button #fakery #harvard #intention #nyc #placebo #psychology #tech #thermostats #wire #wires -
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.
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of that list, I have seen #Garbage and #Placebo live last month (Placebo also in 1995). I have also seen one of the offshoot bands of Gamelan Guru (#LoopGuru) loads of times in the 90s, and will see the other, #TransglobalUnderground next month.
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An interesting history of snake oil:
https://www.iflscience.com/snake-oil-was-once-a-real-cure-and-it-probably-actually-worked-82476
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A common diabetes drug may prevent long COVID when taken early
Large clinical trials and real-world data point to a familiar diabetes drug as a simple, safe way to…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #chestpain #coronavirus #covid-19 #diabetes #Efficacy #Fatigue #Healthcare #infectiousdiseases #Laboratory #medicine #metformin #Pain #pandemic #Placebo #Respiratory #SARS #SARS-CoV-2 #SevereAcuteRespiratory #SevereAcuteRespiratorySyndrome #Syndrome #virus
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/455705/ -
Une drogue bien utile, un virus très apprécié par les neuroscientifiques, et des patients avec la maladie de Parkinso qui, comme leur cousins les singes, peuvent accomploir des tâches dont on ne les aurait pas cru capables.
#éthique #ExpérimentationAnimale #MaladieDeParkinson #mouvement #Neurosciences #placebo #science #SingesHeureux #volonté
https://www.azurs.net/carnet/2025/12/quest-ce-qui-rend-les-singes-heureux/ -
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#energy #mentalhealth #psychology #philosophy #metaphysics #physics #peace #frequency #vibration #love #grace #forgiveness #freedom #leadership #heal #truth #gifts #mindfulness #self #qi #tao #placebo #sacred #wisdom #nature #bloom #photography #trauma #transform #manifest #abundance #subconscious #seeds #seeding #patience #positivity #waters #respect #Tobe #nurture #humanity #unity #society -
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 KnowledgeSourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homeopathy #medicine #body #holistic #holism #mind #placebo #suggestibility
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🎉 ¡Celebramos el aniversario de estos grandes discos que comparten día de lanzamiento! 🎶
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step 👉 https://acortar.link/ocYeww
Placebo - Loud Like Love 👉 https://acortar.link/EvUmnm
Kasabian - Velociraptor! 👉 https://acortar.link/IF52t5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 👉 https://acortar.link/45iUkW
🎧 Conmemóralos con nuestras reseñas y revívelos hoy 🎸🔥
#Aniversario #APerfectCircle #Placebo #Kasabian #TalkingHeads #Rockaxis🐦🔗 https://farside.link/x.com/rockaxisoficial/status/1835867312236150881#m
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Maybe related;
I've found multiple groupings around #Homeopathy.#EvidenceBasedMedicine says (perhaps) "We need large RandomControlledTrails to determine it's efficacy".
#ScienceBasedMedicine want to reject it's use as it's claimed mechanism is entirely fanciful.
#Skeptics follow #SBM .
#Clinicians (some) see (some) good outcomes and don't care if they're #PlaceboEffect #Placebo or not.
#PleasedUsers get results they want.
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Norwescon 45 Multiverse of Music: Recorded live on Thursday night at Norwescon 45! (#ABBA #AndrewVanVlear #AnnieLennox #Argules #Ayria #BillieHoliday #BobSegerAndTheSilverBulletBand #BoneyM #BrunoMars #Cake #CharlieMurphy #Chumbawumba #CorvusCorax #CyndiLauper #DaftPunk #DeadCatBounce #DepecheMode #DJEarworm #DJPrince #DuranDuran #Erasure #FallOnYourSword #Faroff #Garbage #GeorgeMichael #IbibioSoundMachine #InformationSociety #INXS #JanelleMonáe #Kesha #KimPetras #Madonna #MarkRonson #MarkSnow #Melodysheep #MenWithoutHats #NineInchNails #Norwescon #NWC45 #PartyBen #PeterMurphy #PharrellWilliams #Placebo #PrinceAndTheNewPowerGeneration #RightSaidFred #RobinSkouteris #SamSmith #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #Skeewiff #Subwoolfer #TalkingHeads #Technotronic #The8BitBigBand #TheArtOfNoise #TheB52s #TheNoisyFreaks #TheProdigy #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TheTimelords #UrbanDanceSquad #WasNotWas #WhiteZombie #WolfgangPress)
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redoing my #introduction because I have more characters now.
I'm Oscar, a high school student from #Croydon in #London. I'm hoping to go to the #BritSchool to study #ProductionArts. I'm a proficient #Python programmer and Linux user (#XMonad ftw!)
I listen to lots of music. Bands/artists I like include #ManicStreetPreachers, #FleetFoxes, #Radiohead, #Blur, #Placebo, #Pulp, #Elbow, #TheHousemartins, #CarterUSM and many, many more.
I'm a #LibSoc, member of #LabourUK (worst £3 I ever spent), #Atheist, #ActuallyAutistic and #Achillean. AMAB but could care less.
I am also a minor, albeit one who has heard, seen and done some shit. "minors dni" dni.
email/discord can be found on my web page.
happy to be here!
