Episode 3: If It Happens In Your Head...Is It Real?

Join the hosts as they discuss the placebo effect in magick! We cover what placebos and nocebos are, how blinded trials work and why they are useful in study design. The hosts touch upon areas of magick they consider to be placebo effects and discuss why. Do you think the placebo effect plays a role in magick? Let us know where!Come join our discord! https://discord.gg/kJthJyxTBcResources from the episode:Pill color and drug efficacy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359128/Cultural effects on the placebo effect:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/acps.12422 and https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0020764015591492Asthma and placebo...how not to kill your patients: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/asthma-placebo-and-how-not-to-kill-your-patients/

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Welcome to Test Tubes and Cauldrons, a podcast where we talk about the science behind spirituality! Astra, Fel, and Han are three occult practitioners with a love of science who are trying to do what everyone else is…make sense of the crazy world around us and our purpose in it! Hop into the discussions and try not to blow up a test tube or two!