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An interesting aspect of placebo is that supposedly the strength of the effect has been increasing in the last decades. So much so that quite a few approved medications would likely not get approved anymore, because their effect would not be strong enough compared to the placebo effect.



That doesn't make sense. If the approval process were happening now, the new trials would have the drug benefit from the higher placebo effect.


The placebo effect getting stronger as the population of earth increases is probably the most compelling evidence for us living in a simulation.


I find this hard to believe, only because it would be stupidly hard to measure this in an unbiased manner across generations, and the replication crisis is just so rampant.




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