TRANSGENDERThe perfect environment for the placebo effect - “Gender Affirming Treatment” hits another issue

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Imagine if some doctor started giving out sugar pills and telling people it was hormones.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Funnily enough placebos have an effect even when patients are told “this is a placebo”, so the doctor is prohibited by medical ethics from giving out sugar pills without informing patients that they’re sugar pills but could probably do it as long as they say something like “the pills are placebo but they might help alleviate your symptoms”.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Studies have shown that knowing something is a placebo doesn't actually stop the placebo effect oddly enough.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That’s literally what I posted. Hehe

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I either totally misread, or I've come from an adjacent reality where you wrote something slightly different. Pretty much a coin toss.

[–]LyingSpirit472 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Does this have something to do with how eating killer bees caused my flu to go away?