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Radio Lab: Placebo

Published June 18, 2007 at 2:00 PM EDT

Could the best medicine be no medicine at all? With new research demonstrating the startling power of the placebo effect, Radio Lab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination - from the symbolic power of the doctor coat to the very real stash of opium in your mind.

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