Placebo is powered by the belief of the person who uses it, not the person who researches it.
If person A takes the placebo to e.g. fix their blood pressure, and person B measures their blood pressure but doesn’t know why, and person C organizes the experiment, the results should depend on A’s beliefs—because B doesn’t have any, and C already receives the final numbers.
Placebo is powered by the belief of the person who uses it, not the person who researches it.
If person A takes the placebo to e.g. fix their blood pressure, and person B measures their blood pressure but doesn’t know why, and person C organizes the experiment, the results should depend on A’s beliefs—because B doesn’t have any, and C already receives the final numbers.