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Daniel Carrier's avatar

It's not clear that a placebo pill and a big hug and sympathy would signal the same amount of care. The best you can do is compare a big hug and sympathy to nothing, and establish that this effect exists. I doubt it's the only cause of the placebo effect anyway.

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Interesting theory. How would you propose testing it?

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