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Placebos without deception: Misinformation that never dies

Post author By Orac
Post date October 11, 2023
50 Comments on Placebos without deception: Misinformation that never dies

He’s ba-ack! Longtime “integrative medicine” apologist and exaggerator of the “power of placebos” Ted Kaptchuk is promting misinformation again in an op-ed in The New York Times.

Tags alternative medicine, deception, integrative medicine, placebo, placebo effects, placebo myth, placebo narrative, placebos, Ted Kaptchuk

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