Why Are Fake Pills Suddenly Working Better Than Real Medicine

Описание: Something strange is happening in clinical trials. The placebo effect the improvement patients report after taking a completely inactive pill has been getting measurably stronger over the past few decades, to the point where some new medications are struggling to outperform a sugar pill at all. This video breaks down the data behind the trend, the leading theories researchers have for why it's happening, and why it's almost entirely limited to trials run in one specific country.
Timestamps:
0:00 The pill that shouldn't be working better
0:45 What a placebo actually is
1:30 The data showing the shift
3:00 Two patients, twenty years apart
4:00 Why this is happening in the US and nowhere else
5:15 Three competing theories
7:00 The honest answer: nobody fully knows
Sources referenced: Jeffrey Mogil's research at McGill University on rising placebo response rates in U.S. clinical trials.
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