Written on 17-03-2019

“Placebos” are harmless treatments that supposedly do no real good, even if a patient thinks they do. But new research suggests that positive results to a placebo—the “placebo effect”—may have a root in biological processes. This research could upend how we think about medical research and treatment.

Read more at “What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?” here, in The New York Times Magazine.