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Friday, September 11, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
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Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it's not quite nothing. Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment.    (source: newscientist.com)


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