Commercials That Depend on the Placebo Effect

Why else do you think your TV is infested with ads for ED pills, memory enhancements, and other vitamin type pills that that the FDA is not allowed to comment on? At least 30% of buyers will give them a good review because of the strange tendency of the brain to produce real physical effects for no discernable reason.No further explanation needed. All comments welcome.

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  1. The older I get, the more cynical I become, but I am very skeptical about most claims even from well-known people, unless they come from someone that I think has no financial interest at stake, like Consumer Reports. But I know that there are people who would readily buy products if someone who they admired plugs it, even if that person has little professional expertise in that field, and in these cases, they may have some inherent bias in thinking
    that the product is more effective than it really is.

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