Ah, but the placebo effect *does* exist. It is just a different placebo
effect than the researchers thought it was. The real placebo effect is in
the effect of the literature on the researchers and not the effect of the
sugar pill on the patients. The papers referring to other papers, which in
turn referred to yet other papers, were the placebos. The only problem with
this textual drug trial is that while there was a control group taking the
placebo myth, there wasn't any actual textual pharmaceutical being tested.
Didn't Plato write about this in the Pharmacon? Didn't Derrida?
Tom Walker
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