Placebo Effect - How drug companies make you sick?

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Placebo effect can be used by drug companies to make you sick. See all those depression ads. See all those advertisements that say 1 in 10 has this cancer or drug, so go for

this addtional testing or


take this medicine.

Placebo effect can work this way too.

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