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So if you're a patient, and you're complaining, "Ugh, my pelvis hurts," and you go to the
clinic—they're either going to decide to operate or not on the basis of the information
they have in front of them.
Measles is, in most people's mind dismissed as a just a spotty skin disease. And for many people
who get measles, that's all it is. But one in a thousand will get a serious internal complication,
and one in a hundred thousand will be left with major brain damage as a result of measles infection.
The exact same thing is happening with the placebo effect. Again, there are two ways
of being right, and two ways of being wrong. Four possible outcomes that can happen.
Most homeopathic remedies are labelled 30C. Which means one part active ingredient, to
one hundred to the power thirty parts water. Now, that's all of the atoms in the entire solar system.