'Expensive' placebos work better than 'cheap' ones, study finds

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How do you convert a simple saline solution into a useful treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease? Tell them it’s a drug that costs $100 per dose. And if you want to make it even more effective, tell them it costs $1,500 instead.

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Or you could take the $10,000 cure at the Institute for Advanced Quackery and Homeopathy in Juarez, Mexico. :covereyes

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