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Answer – Some researchers think of the placebo effect as the experimental static that can interfere with an otherwise clean study. In many ways, mind/body medicine is an attempt to harness the same forces that are behind the placebo effect, but in ways that enable patients to become active partners with their physicians in helping to heal themselves.
