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How the placebo effect went mainstream

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Jun 27, 202328:11Science & Medicine

Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the placebo effect by Harvard anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher was nonetheless remarkable and influential. It paved the way for sounder dru...