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Letter: Ingredient-free marketing works

Published 30 March 2016

From Richard Nissen

Shannon Fischer's description of the power of placebos is fascinating (12 March, p 32). It chimes with my having heard the marketing manager for a big-brand painkiller saying that the more you advertise the stronger the drug becomes – and that its effects kick in within 5 minutes, which is pharmacologically impossible.

London, UK

Issue no. 3067 published 2 April 2016

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