Placebo Quotes

I became a human placebo.

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C, ascorbate) has a controversial history in cancer treatment, ... Observational reports described ascorbate, given in pharmacologic doses of 10 g daily, as effective in treating some cancers and in improving patient well-being. Subsequently, the same dose had no effect on patient well-being and survival in two double-blind placebo-controlled trials, and ascorbate was discarded as a treatment modality.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, `Yes, you're right.` You know. But two years later to be gaining ground and making real progress? That's far from a placebo.