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A 2014 review of 53 trials that compared elective surgical procedures to placebos found that sham surgeries provided some benefit in 74 percent of the trials and worked as well as the real deal in about half.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/surgery-is-one-hell-of-a-placebo/

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Dean's avatar

Very interesting, thanks for posting!

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