• somethingsnappy
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    7 days ago

    That would be because we now know many cartilage related knee surgeries do not.

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      7 days ago

      the effect is extremely real though, same with nocebo. They did a study a while ago, told people something was poison oak when it wasn’t and rubbed them with it. They broke out in rashes.

      Might be this one

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        7 days ago

        Also, worked 30+ years in science and specifically a lot of immunology.

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        I’m not going to spend much time reading a LLM generated article from a source that pays people for surveys. In general, you are not wrong as far as placebo goes. Nocebo is just life.