You can teach people about placebos (or about control responses, or about proper controls in general) without needing to perpetuate the errors stemming from a poorly-named “placebo effect” and the hidden inferences that come with the term “effect”.
You can teach people about placebos (or about control responses, or about proper controls in general) without needing to perpetuate the errors stemming from a poorly-named “placebo effect” and the hidden inferences that come with the term “effect”.