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		liftbigweights on Sept 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discov... From a few days ago. "Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927802 I wonder how much of "X helped me" is a result of the placebo effect and how much of it is truly helpful.

darkerside on Sept 23, 2018 [–]

The science is still out and likely will be for a long time, but I think people are generally too eager to label anything they don't understand as impossible or a placebo effect. Not everything true is scientifically known, or ever will be.

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