{"id":897220,"date":"2026-04-06T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/10-times-the-placebo-effect-fooled-modern-science\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:16:16","slug":"10-times-the-placebo-effect-fooled-modern-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/10-times-the-placebo-effect-fooled-modern-science\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Times the Placebo Effect Fooled Modern Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The human brain exerts an astonishing influence over physical processes. For centuries, doctors have known that simply believing a treatment works can sometimes improve a patient\u2019s symptoms. This strange phenomenon, known as the placebo effect, continues to fascinate modern researchers. Scientists have documented cases where fake pills caused measurable physiological changes that can resemble the [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post 10 Times the Placebo Effect Fooled Modern Science appeared first on Listverse&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/listverse.com\/2026\/04\/06\/10-times-the-placebo-effect-fooled-modern-science\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Jamie Frater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The human brain exerts an astonishing influence over physical processes. For centuries, doctors have known that simply believing a treatment works can sometimes improve a patient\u2019s symptoms. This strange phenomenon, known as the placebo effect, continues to fascinate modern researchers. Scientists have documented cases where fake pills caused measurable physiological changes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48640,536,849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-placebo","category-science-nature","category-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}