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You know it’s a placebo. So why does it still work?

11 mins | Jan 16, 2024

As researchers try to make sense of “open-label” placebos—fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness—the mysterious effect is starting to show up beyond the world of medicine. Tom Vanderbilt reports on this phenomenon. Read by Mark Deakins.