Placebo effect
The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behavior not attributable to a medication or invasive treatment that has been administered.
It’s very interesting to see how the placebo effect, not only in medicine, can affect the people’s worldview, when they see or feel the improvements -not only in health- produced by themselves but as a result of using a placebo (that of course they belive is real).
For example, let’s say that some guy says that rubbing hands against a tree heals some disease, then some naive ill persons com to rub their hands to that tree, let’s say that first person does not feels an improvement, he simply thinks, it didn’t work. But the second person feels some improvements (that can also be explained by statistics), then he thinks, Oohh, rubbing hands against that tree really works… then he starts to believe that such thing was the one and only cause of being healing….
Now, he spreads his story -being convinced about it- and everytime he has a disease, he goes into the rubbing thing…
The problems comes when their mind begins to believe that they need such thing to be good: they can become placebo addicts.
