{"id":26151,"date":"2018-11-12T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26151"},"modified":"2018-11-12T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:09:50","slug":"what-if-the-placebo-effect-isnt-a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/11\/12\/what-if-the-placebo-effect-isnt-a-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the Placebo Effect Isn\u2019t a Trick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dreaded <em>New York Times <\/em>has the article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/07\/magazine\/placebo-effect-medicine.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> What if the Placebo Effect Isn\u2019t a Trick?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNew research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect \u2014 possibly opening a Pandora\u2019s box for Western medicine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The subject interests me because I have been taking a placebo for over 25 years, and it seems to be an important part of my mental health.  The last time I tried to wean myself off the placebo, it did not work out well.  I&#8217;ve decided never to try that experiment again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dreaded New York Times has the article What if the Placebo Effect Isn\u2019t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect \u2014 possibly opening a Pandora\u2019s box for Western medicine. The subject interests me because I have been taking a placebo for over 25 years, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26152,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}