SYSK Selects: How the Placebo Effect Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, doctors have prescribed drugs they knew weren't real – but that still somehow worked. It wasn't until the 1980s that the placebo effect was studied. Learn all about how an inert substance can have a genuine impact on a patient's recovery, in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's SIS case lecture I've chosen an episode
0:36.6	on placebo's.
0:38.4	It's an episode chock full of backs of the podcast and yet chock comes out with one of
0:44.2	the all-time greats right out of the gate.
0:47.2	But don't stop listening then.
0:48.6	The whole episode is amazingly wonderful, which is why I chose it.
0:52.5	So enjoy it.
0:56.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:02.5	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:07.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry.
1:10.7	Jerry.
1:11.7	The placebo dooser.
1:14.7	No.
1:15.7	No.
1:16.7	Nope.
	...

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