"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: placebo narrative

Placebos without deception: Misinformation that never dies

Post author By Orac
Post date October 11, 2023
50 Comments on Placebos without deception: Misinformation that never dies

He’s ba-ack! Longtime “integrative medicine” apologist and exaggerator of the “power of placebos” Ted Kaptchuk is promting misinformation again in an op-ed in The New York Times.

Tags alternative medicine, deception, integrative medicine, placebo, placebo effects, placebo myth, placebo narrative, placebos, Ted Kaptchuk

Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Does thinking make it so? The placebo myth rears its ugly head again.

Post author By Orac
Post date December 20, 2016
20 Comments on Does thinking make it so? The placebo myth rears its ugly head again.

Blogging is a funny thing. Sometimes the coincidence involved is epic. For instance, as I do on many Mondays, yesterday I crossposted a modified and updated version of a post from a week ago from my not-so-super-secret other blog. This time around, it just so happened to be a post about what I like to […]

Tags integrative medicine, placebo, placebo myth, placebo narrative, quackery, Ted Kaptchuk

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