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The Doctors Placebos; toxic sunscreen; eyebrow lamination; longer lashes; mock-guac; dogfishing; sleep.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2020

Placebos can work—that’s the whole reason they matter.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2017

Placebos work only if patients think they’re real.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2016

Placebos aren’t just sugar pills disguised as medicine, though that’s the literal definition; they are any intervention, benign but believed by the recipient to be potent, that produces measurable physiological changes.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2014

These services derived the name under which they commonly went from one of the words of the liturgy sung; they were called Placebos and Diriges.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules