&gt;it&#x27;s kind of funny that skeptics like to dismiss impressive sounding treatments as being placebos. A placebo is a pretty impressive phenomenon!<p>It&#x27;s not about whether a treatment works at all - it&#x27;s about whether it works better than any old random thing. If it doesn&#x27;t, you can hardly call it a treatment. Sure you could go &quot;hallelujah, a new medicine!&quot; when you find that a sugar pill provides a slight improvement, just like sand pills and empty pills and homeopathy. But you haven&#x27;t actually discovered anything new.