Placebo is just a derrogatory term for the fact that your mind influences your body and your perception of what is real.<p>It is a perversion of capitalist societies to only accept a physical and obvious influence as being able to change something.<p>The trick is - our mind is physical - at least physically manifested - and so it should be evident for even mildly educated people that your mind can affect your body.<p>So instead of disregarding placebo as some bullshit that is used to test whether something actually works - why not invest some time and money into perfecting the application of placebo effects?<p>Well, and here we are back to the mechanisms of capitalism - you couldn&#x27;t sell that very well ... that&#x27;s the problem.<p>And if you think about it - perfecting the reliability and effect of placebo &quot;medication&quot; would inevitably lead in a straight path to ... meditation.