Placebology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of placebos and placebo effects, especially of their applications in medicine and science. uncountable

    "So Kaptchuk had what may sound like the craziest idea in all of crazy placebology. What would happen if we gave patients a placebo—and told them it was a placebo?"

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"So Kaptchuk had what may sound like the craziest idea in all of crazy placebology. What would happen if we gave patients a placebo—and told them it was a placebo?"

Etymology

By surface analysis, placebo + -ology.

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