ANNALS OF SCIENCE THE POWER OF NOTHING Could studying the placebo effect change the way we think about medicine? BY MICHAEL SPECTER Re years, Ted Kaptchuk performed acupuncture at a tiny clinic in Cam- bridge, a few miles from his current office, at the Harvard Medical School...
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beginning I kept having this nagging thought: what is so bad about getting better from a placebo?” That kind of thinking, still hard for most doctors to accept, was heretical in 1990, when Kaptchuk arrived at Har- vard. “People kept saying, ‘Oh, this is just the placebo effect”...
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