Conventional medicine interventions did better than placebo, whereas the homeopathy interventions basically did the same as placebo.
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MATTHIAS EGGER What we saw was [that] when you looked at these good, large studies, you did no longer see an effect...
MATTHIAS EGGER What one would have expected is that large studies of high quality would have shown an effect, which...
MATTHIAS EGGER The highest form of medicine is the simplest and most honest activation of the placebo effect via se...
BRANDON A. TREAN I became a human placebo.
BOBBY SHERMAN The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made ...
ALFRED ADLER “Do not believe in someone as a placebo effect for your cure.” – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
IRVING KIRSCH These are very short courses, but these are lifesaving interventions.
DONNA MILDVAN My question is, what is placebo? We hear the word and think it means 'fake.' Well, the placebo effec...
DEAN NEARY If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn...
BOB GREEN For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is...
NICHOLSON BAKER If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You ...
BOB GREEN Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through t...
CLYDE DESOUZA Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. - Nolan's / Peter's Placebo.
UNKNOWN The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.
JANICE ARGABRIGHT The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people fro...
JONATHAN KLEIN the totality of U.S. military interventions have not left lasting, meaningful democratic institution...
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA We can provide any number of medical [or] social work interventions.
KAREL AMARANTH There weren't enough baseline studies to reach any conclusions based on the effectiveness of these i...
LINDA DEGUTIS The United States conducts interventions (against drug trafficking) at the invitation of the Colombi...
ANNE PATTERSON Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of im...
JOHN CORNWELL We hope to follow the DPP population to learn how long the interventions are effective.
DAVID NATHAN You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
BEN GOLDACRE The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. I don't think these studies...
IRVING KIRSCH The findings may point the way to new medical interventions, such as drugs or vaccines, for infectio...
ANTHONY S. FAUCI The big bulk of the response to anti-depressants is the placebo response. I don't think these studie...
IRVING KIRSCH If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addict...
BRIAN MOLKO Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is...
BRIAN MOLKO There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ...
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZIńSKI Unfortunately, the literature provides little guidance on which interventions, and under which circu...
ELIZABETH JACOBS The judge ruled the state needs to provide better early childhood interventions and programs in orde...
BOBBY STEPP The team made a goal to finish as good or better than they did last year. I'm hoping for the same.
KATIE DOLGE We are not an island. Botswana should use all the available regional interventions to articulate thi...
BERNARD BALIKANI I do not need to have a control group, a placebo or a degree to be an applicator of knowledge.
RODNEY LOVELL Before women start rushing to this agent, a truly placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-institutio...
IRA GOLDSTEIN Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO Neither of us has much of a science education, or even math, ... They all went together, at first ta...
CHARLES PIERCE Our congressman, Bill Thomas, certainly had an impact. That certainly could offset all of the other ...
PHIL ARNOLD I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome...
IRVING KIRSCH I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with ...
CHRIS TOUMAZOU I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternati...
SISSY SPACEK The group that got the vinegar lost several pounds on average and that was significant compared to t...
CAROL JOHNSTON In spite of this tragedy, reducing lead poisoning remains one of the most successful public-health i...
DAN SYMONIK The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example,...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS Margins and revenue were better than feared. Inventories did go up as we expected but they basically...
CHARLIE GLAVIN The drought is already here. This is our warning that without immediate help...there will be deaths....
ABDULLAHI ALI HAJI Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals t...
DEAN ORNISH Our preliminary data showed that mothers were effective in increasing the mediating variables -- kno...
BARBARA DANCY (Pratt) basically did the same thing in (the first game) as she did tonight. We put three different ...
VAL ANAE We do know that people do get better with homeopathy,
MATTHIAS EGGER But the question is how does it work?
MATTHIAS EGGER By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and theref...
EDWARD ANDERSON While these findings may be somewhat discouraging news for those wishing to reverse obesity through ...
DEBORAH MUOIO So they actually did better than 3.5 percent in the toy industry itself. Clearly they did better tha...
MARGARET WHITFIELD “Move on” must be over the dispute, not to end a relation. – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health a...
JOEL FUHRMAN And though there?s no research, as a nice Jewish boy, I can say chicken soup is a good source of pro...
DR. JONATHAN GOODMAN I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.
DAVID SANBORN With this team we're cautiously optimistic. It's basically the same team from last year . . . so we'...
AL MELNICK There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone ge...
MICHAEL SPECTER This more detailed analysis shows that direct personal interventions and a high visibility of the ac...
NEIL HIGGS What we're trying to do as the local health community and state officials is to determine which fact...
AUDREY STEVENSON Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH We've been able to target real barriers and roadblocks to women's careers, and we've launched interv...
JO HANDELSMAN He's basically the same guy. He has good feet on him. He did a really good job last year.
ROCKY BERNARD People will have to be motivated for behavioral change, providers will have to take greater responsi...
UMED AJANI I was surprised that I did as well as I did, but I'm hoping to do better in the next election. I did...
KATHY PASTRYK I don't mind the term functional medicine -- I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.
NANCY S. MURE Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery a...
CHLOE GOVAN We didn't have the same intensity in the third quarter as we did in the first half. We got away from...
WENDEE WARG It's unquestionable that these therapies are beneficial to patients. This is just really something t...
ANDREA FOULKES The combination (an integrated approach) will allow the client to use lower doses of drugs, for exam...
BRADLY JACOBS I'm progressing like I should be. I felt better today than I did the time before, and I felt better ...
JUSTIN VERLANDER He just did better than me.
JOSH SWOGGER I did miss it last year as far as being out on the field, but I did get to witness it on the bench, ...
ADAM EVERETT Our kids did a lot better in the final rounds this week than they did last week.
HERB STINSON I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
PAMELA SUE MARTIN Sleep is better than medicine.
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LYNN MCDONALD It did better than expected. It did very well. But the promoter asked that numbers not be released.
CLAUDIA ARGUELLES We did better against Franklin this year than we did last year, but the kids are pretty disappointed...
FRED PIMENTAL Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
ETHAN CANIN We made more mistakes today than they did, and that's why they won. To their credit, they did a bett...
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JAKE BRUNER They did much better than we expected.
IVAN LATHOUDERS Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to...
ANNE BAUER It is sad and regrettable that the urgent court application comes in the wake of fruitful interventi...
LUPHUMZO KEBENI I thought we did (better) job matching up defensively than what we did the first time we played them...
JACKIE DINARDO The models show that if you combine well-directed, targeted treatment with some social interventions...
ANTHONY S. FAUCI Gold Beach looked better than they did the first two games.
JOE MORIN The idea is to identify the parts that need repairs more urgently but in the longer term we hope to ...
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BERNIE SIEGEL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
IBN GABIROL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
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