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Houston spoke of three significantly different categories of placebo (pp.1417-1418):
- the drug that the physician knows to be inert, but which the subject believes to be potent.
- the drug which is believed to be potent by both subject and physician, but which later investigation proves to have been totally inert.
- the drug which is believed to be impotent by both subject and physician, but is actually harmful and dangerous, rather than being inert and harmless.
Life, It's all about beliefs.
