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If it has no effect, then why would anybody be talking about the 'placebo effect'? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 17:13, 2 December 2008 (EST)
If it has no effect, then why would anybody be talking about the 'placebo effect'? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 17:13, 2 December 2008 (EST)
::''I have no idea why you'd want it in the article'' I feel that medical articles in particular MUST be carefully researched and referenced. At the time I made the edit, I wanted the CDC page to remain as a reference for the article because it was the ONLY reference provided in the article at that time - better to have one reference, even it it is not ideal, then none. However, the article at that time contained NONE of the information given on that CDC page - the reference tags were at the end of a paragraph, which implied that information in that paragraph had come from the CDC page, but in fact it had not, so the reference tags needed to be removed from the paragraph - but where to put them? To clean up this error, I had two choices: 1) I could remove the ref tags, and thus the citation, entirely (since nothing in the article came from the page cited), but that would leave a medical article with no citations whatsoever, which is not good, OR 2) I could insert the information given in the page cited, and keep the citation. Once there were more references provided in the article, the CDC info could be removed if desired. It was not that I wanted the CDC definition in particular to be in the article; rather that I wanted ''something'' in the article to be properly sourced, and at that time, the CDC definition was all we had. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 10:46, 3 December 2008 (EST)
:There's no active ingredient in a placebo, so any effect is either psychological or a mistaken perception. In other words, the placebo itself does nothing, it's the subject doing all the work or seeing a change when there really wasn't any. Additionally the "placebo effect" is different than a "placebo". [[User:LiamG|LiamG]] 17:29, 2 December 2008 (EST)
:There's no active ingredient in a placebo, so any effect is either psychological or a mistaken perception. In other words, the placebo itself does nothing, it's the subject doing all the work or seeing a change when there really wasn't any. Additionally the "placebo effect" is different than a "placebo". [[User:LiamG|LiamG]] 17:29, 2 December 2008 (EST)