An ace article on the placebo effect

I've been meaning to get round to reading this for a while.
http://jdc325.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/the-powerful-placebo/

I totally admit I know nothing about the placebo effect after reading this post.

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This is why I love science in a way. It's always proving me wrong. It may not do much for my self-esteem or credibility but I like finding out I'm wrong in spectacular ways like this. This blogger totally slams everything I knew.

The amount of time the blogger has spent on that article is amazing and makes my work a total mockery of good science journalism, but then it isn't good science journalism. This is just my notepad. Stuff and Nonsense is a proper blog.

The author's even read a 451 page Cochrane Systematic Review on the placebo effect. I'm going to be lazy and just read the New England Journal of Medicine article by the same author.