Assertion: placebo | /r/HasAspect | effect
Facets:
value: on the disease
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: by definition
type: OTHER
value: on the body
type: LOCATION
value: over no treatment
type: OTHER
value: on illness
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Because placebos often have an effect, even if the effect doesn’t last long, some people think that the placebo produced a cure.
text: While a placebo has no effect on illness, it can have a very real effect on how some people feel.
text: In general, placebos can affect how patients perceive their condition and encourage the body's chemical processes for relieving pain and a few other symptoms, but have no impact on the disease itself.
text: These are effects that can cause a study to report that a placebo (or even a treatment that doesn’t actually work) had some effect when it really didn’t.
text: While it was once assumed that this deception was necessary for placebos to have any effect, there is now evidence that placebos can have effects even when the patient is aware that the treatment is a placebo.
text: To complicate matters, there is a documented “placebo effect,” which means that some people actually respond to a placebo even though it shouldn’t have an effect on the body.
text: The only area where placebo seems to have an effect over no treatment at all is in psychological reactions to pain.
text: you noted that placebos do have effect, but argued that other treatments are more effective.
text: It stands to reason the placebo would have no effect.
text: Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'?
text: Likewise I prefer the wording that "In general, placebos...have no impact on the disease itself" because it avoids stating this is particularly common while leaving open the possibility of exceptions.
text: A person who was taking a placebo when symptoms started improving on their own is very likely to believe that the placebo had some effect.