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Who felt better as a result of medical malpractice?
Patients with broken backs
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Who has the opposite reaction to most people when given some placebo pills?
Italian soccer fans, for whom blue pills act as a stimulant rather than a sedative
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Who gave people placebos expecting them to have no effect whatsoever?
Doctors in the 19th century
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Who received a placebo after being told it was likely to have a positive effect on them?
Cyclists prepating for a time trial.
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Who didn't perform any better after taking a placebo?
Half the cyclists who received placebo
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Who can produce a similar effect to a placebo, using only words?
A caring and sympathetic doctor
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Who was eager to be given a supply of sugar pills?
People who had taken part in a drug trial at Harvard
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Who developed the earliest theories on how major physical problems could have psychological causes?
Freud
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