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Toward Understanding the Placebo Effect
Investigating a Possible Retrocausal Factor
by E. Lobach and Dean Radin, PhD
Radin D, Lobach E. J Altern Complement Med. 2007 Sep;13(7):733-39.
Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind-body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
