Placebo Quotes

• Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

  Brian Molko

  Gigs, Outsiders, Outcast

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Powerful, Healing, Placebo Effect

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

  Matthieu Ricard

  Optimism, Mind, Lollipop

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

  Nicholson Baker

  Novelists, Groups, World

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.16, Vintage

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• The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Inspiration

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• It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Faith and Reason - PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

  Ben Goldacre

  Play, Mind, Body

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• God is a placebo for your own mortality.

  Robert Barron

  God, Mortality

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• Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?

  George Carlin

  Real, Causes, Sides

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Giving, Wish

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

  Steven Wright

  Matter, Quitting

  "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Medicine, Feelings

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• Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.

  Larry Dossey

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Impact

  Larry Dossey (2009). “Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

  Brian Molko

  Drug, Doubt, Mysterious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

  J.P. Moreland

  Emotional, Crutches, Unbelievers

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• We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Placebo Effect, Years, Cures

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fate, Medicine, Flying

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• I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

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• I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

  Kat Duff

  Placebo Effect, Long, Magic

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• ... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Powerful, Effectiveness

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• I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Uplifting, Mean, Feel Better

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• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Effectiveness, Fda

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• A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

  Charles Jencks

  Hate, Medical Profession, Teeth

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• You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

  Charles Jencks

  Believe, Exercise, Way

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• Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Simple, Giving, Comfort

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage

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