How Placebos Work

There's a lot of value in giving a subject a dose of nothing.

Math How Placebos Work A placebo is a procedure or substance with no medical value, and is a key part of pharmaceutical tests and other statistical experiments. Here's why it's important that some subjects have nothing done to them, and may never know the truth. READ NOW Advertisement READ THESE How Did We First Find Out About Cells? Can Living Organisms Come From Nonliving Matter? How Are Plant and Animal Cells Different? You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Today I Learned newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here A Dotdash Brand 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2017 Dotdash - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.