Is Surgery Better than Qigong? Ask Claude Lévi-Strauss
/We have tested the idea that what a patient believes is the cause of placebo, and belief isn't the cause. Placebo's work on small children and animals, do they really think they are convincing animals to "believe?" But people who are embedded in Protestant Scientistic culture just can't hear that. It is a good example of cognitive dissonance.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/surgery-is-one-hell-of-a-placebo/
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