You know you’ve made it when they run a story on Fox News. Forget Harvard (where the groundbreaking placebo study took place that allowed patients to KNOW they were trialling placebos). The Harvard study told participants the ‘medication’ they were taking was inert, however it ‘would engage the mind-body and self healing thing’.
Marc Siegel, from something called the ‘Fox News Medical A-Team’, comments on video here.
In other news, the more mainstream Wall Street Journal comments on the research here and here.