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the craziest thing about the placebo effect is that it still works even when you tell people that it's a placebo

"The efficacy of open-label placebo was superior to that of no treatment. Relative to no treatment, the placebo, under each information condition, accounted for more than 50% of the drug effect."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.3006175