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Citation Needed

The Placebo Effect

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

placebo (/pləˈsb/ pluh-SEE-boh) is a medicine or treatment intended to appear genuine to its recipient, but which has no pharmaceutical effect.[1][2] Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like saline), sham surgery,[3] and other procedures.[4]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to citation needed.

0:24.1

The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts.

0:28.7

Because this is the internet?

0:29.8

That's how it works now.

0:31.1

I'm Eli Bosnick and I'll be faking it until I make it tonight, but I'll need a few pills to make it all go down smooth.

0:37.4

First up, three people who are not in the horrifying collection. make it tonight, but I'll need a few pills to make it all go down smooth.

0:39.7

First up, three people who are not in the horrifying collection of child abuse

0:42.8

known as the Epstein titles.

0:45.2

Tom Cecil and here.

0:46.1

No, it's just my life.

0:47.2

Actually, just my life.

0:49.5

I am in the pedestrian emails.

0:52.1

Pizza is something Italian.

1:12.6

You have to be allowed to talk about cheese pizza. Absolutely. You have to be able to say it. It's important. I think it's the fact that you said you were going to fuck it to death that really confused those policemen. You have to be allowed to say you're going to fuck cheese pizza to death. That's constitutionally protected speech. He says that about a lot of his meals,

1:18.1

though. That's what you've got to bear in mind. It really helped at his trial. And also joining us tonight, Michael Marshall. Okay, so you assume I'm the only one of us in the Epstein Files,

1:23.7

but listeners, ask yourself this, why do you think Heath really goes by a pseudonym?

1:28.8

Do a search of his real name.

1:30.4

You'll see exactly what I mean.

1:32.1

Isn't that right, Lawrence Krauss?

1:38.3

Wow.

1:41.4

I'm sorry.

1:42.3

I didn't mean, I'm sorry.

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