Nocebo...This is why there should never be mandated treatments. If I feel that it might hurt me, it is more likely to hurt me. It makes me angry that my family members and others felt they had no choice.
Yes, you have all the extreme fear propaganda about death and disease blasted at you 24/7 and when you become ill, certainly in a care home Mar-Jun 2020 you would automatically considered as being 'COVID' positive then if you died a COVID death. These are all ADMITTED FACTS from the Scottish COVID Inquiry and recently from the UK COVID inquiry from the DIRECTOR of Public Health Scotland no less. As usual, nothing to see here. No Dr Campbell or Neil Oliver speeches. Everyone wants to discuss the COVID 'vaccine' forever not what transpired to allow them to be approved in the first place.
Interesting about the portable pulse oximetry devices to which I was subjected for a while. The whole Covid affair was about many things, but much of it was the buying up of cheap technology which didn't work very well. Perhaps much of it was 'Made in China'.
BANG OVER THE TARGET! In lock down I would urge my friends who were experiencing breathlessness, to take a tranquilizer. And then if the symptoms alleviated, they would know it was anxiety. If they persisted, they should seek help. All those who followed this advice NEVER GOT COVID, or rushed off for a PCR test. Just one, didn't, his anxiety got worse. His wife rushed him to casualty. He was admitted, drugged, went from general COVID Ward, to HIGH care in a few days. And left the hospital with heart damage. And it all started from him having some sinusitis, his GP suggesting a PCR test....and the mass onset of fear that followed.
Fantastic explanations, Jonathan. What is the “effect” when a pharma company claims to have conducted a placebo-controlled study, but the placebo itself is merely a derivative of the active treatment, I.e what I understand happened during covid when Pfizer (and others) utilised a “placebo” comprising pretty much the same jab constituents, just minus the “mRNA” so including the LNP’s and other toxic constituents … would this be a “fauxcebo”? Claiming it if so!
Almost all vaccine trials use other vaccines for Placebo. That's been my experience and I published a book on vaccines with a little over 1000 peer reviewed reports. Vaccine trials rarely use a real Placebo.
I recall the US based Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) being pleased that they had at least secured the requirement for just saline to be used for the covid jab trials - pleased because usually as you say they use placebos containing ingredients that could cause adverse reactions.
In my opinion, there are a lot of nocebo effects when it comes to food and nutrition. I have seen people become "physically" repulsed by foods they have consumed most of their life once they are told that that particular food is "unhealthy". They may actually feel nausea and/or other gastrointestinal symptoms. There is also the mistaken perception of a "sugar high"---especially in children---when this is physiologically impossible.
To access full papers for free go to Sci-Hub.se and enter the DOI number, always begins with 10 and voila, the paper appears as a free download. I use it all the time.
On the topic of the effects of unblinded trials though I wonder also considering so many reports of these injections (not the placebos) having noticeable symptoms almost immediately whether the being able to notice immediately that you got an active ingredient injection would have caused a placebo effect itself making the non-placebo recipients far less likely to experience cold symptoms simply due to their belief in the product.
Actually furthermore they may have been too sick afterwards to notice cold symptoms or assumed due to general malaise (post jab) that any cold symptoms were just jab effects. Even Bill Gates was in the news saying recipients would quite possibly feel unwell - I thought at the time that was weird but maybe it was intentional. So had the real deal recipients caught a cold post injection they probably wouldn’t have reported it as cold symptoms writing it off as the expected side effects & not gotten tested. Enabling the reduced risk of infection reporting.
All the TikTok action of newscasters keeling over and athletes collapsing 'commotio cordis' is psyops.
Also, to amplify the hysteria, the internets are bulging with planted accounts: people (usually anonymous but not always) saying they had this or that acute reaction to the voodoo jabs ('RNA injections'). Just like people (sometimes real sometimes fake) saying they had to see a heart doctor for their 'long covid tachycardia' or their 'jab-induced myocarditis'.
Even the professional medical literature is replete with publications written by psyop social-engineers with MD's and PhD's.
So little is ever written about the nocebo effect because of the massive harm which is caused by it: a sensitive test causing a misdiagnosis of a serious ailment, of course, puts massive stress on the individual and their families but also can lead to harmful treatments that make the non-existent problem worse. I suspect that many people had Covid due to the hysteria attached. This is among the reasons that I usually forego any diagnostic procedures if I am healthy and not having any problems. It's even worse than if it ain't broke don't fix it when the suggestion breaks things itself...
This book describes the nocebo effect resulting in real pain but with a psychological origin (vasoconstriction causing micro inflammation and real pain). I’ve experienced this myself.
An important read for you. I think it supports your hypothesis.
There is some people who would present this phenomena in Darwin terms:
the more pills & jabs the stronger the placebo effect grows over time, as an adaptive defense mechanism. Eventually, it's a win-win scenario in which fewer and fewer pills & jabs are needed to achieve the same effects so that the overall pharmacological toxicity is mitigated...
SSRI's would be more impressive if there were a black market for such molecules.
And when there is a black market for mood-altering molecules (i.e. Ritalin), the stuff gets vilified, and rightly so.
SSRI's for mild-to-moderate depression is hard to measure effectively, but the pills will probably be around for a long time to treat the vast OCD epidemic.
In fact, I had to read this passage seven times:
"At any rate, it appears that in OCD, as in other mental and non-mental disorders, placebo effect and responder rates are puzzlingly increasing and appear to be out of control, and this depends on multiple factors [137, 144], pointing to changing populations included in RCTs (independently from initial severity) and prompting to a revision of the RCT model. Given that this trend is not specifically bound to a single condition, it is possible that it reflects continuing human evolution."
Placebo Effect in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Placebo Response and Placebo Responders in OCD: The Trend Over Time
Given that belief in the safety and efficacy of most pharmaceuticals increasingly resembles a cult-like quasi-religious belief system, it doesn't surprise me that the placebo effect is increasing.
The increased placebo effect simply reflects the increasing prevalence of that belief system.
Nocebo...This is why there should never be mandated treatments. If I feel that it might hurt me, it is more likely to hurt me. It makes me angry that my family members and others felt they had no choice.
Yes, you have all the extreme fear propaganda about death and disease blasted at you 24/7 and when you become ill, certainly in a care home Mar-Jun 2020 you would automatically considered as being 'COVID' positive then if you died a COVID death. These are all ADMITTED FACTS from the Scottish COVID Inquiry and recently from the UK COVID inquiry from the DIRECTOR of Public Health Scotland no less. As usual, nothing to see here. No Dr Campbell or Neil Oliver speeches. Everyone wants to discuss the COVID 'vaccine' forever not what transpired to allow them to be approved in the first place.
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/breakinguk-covid-19-inquiry-6-nov
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquirycare-home?utm_source=publication-search
Interesting about the portable pulse oximetry devices to which I was subjected for a while. The whole Covid affair was about many things, but much of it was the buying up of cheap technology which didn't work very well. Perhaps much of it was 'Made in China'.
BANG OVER THE TARGET! In lock down I would urge my friends who were experiencing breathlessness, to take a tranquilizer. And then if the symptoms alleviated, they would know it was anxiety. If they persisted, they should seek help. All those who followed this advice NEVER GOT COVID, or rushed off for a PCR test. Just one, didn't, his anxiety got worse. His wife rushed him to casualty. He was admitted, drugged, went from general COVID Ward, to HIGH care in a few days. And left the hospital with heart damage. And it all started from him having some sinusitis, his GP suggesting a PCR test....and the mass onset of fear that followed.
Fantastic explanations, Jonathan. What is the “effect” when a pharma company claims to have conducted a placebo-controlled study, but the placebo itself is merely a derivative of the active treatment, I.e what I understand happened during covid when Pfizer (and others) utilised a “placebo” comprising pretty much the same jab constituents, just minus the “mRNA” so including the LNP’s and other toxic constituents … would this be a “fauxcebo”? Claiming it if so!
In the phase 3 trial they claim the placebo was saline and I have not seen any convincing evidence that it wasn't.
However, non-saline "placebos" have been frequently used in many vaccine trials previously.
In fact, hardly any placebo-controlled trials measuring all-cause effects have ever been conducted for vaccines.
Almost all vaccine trials use other vaccines for Placebo. That's been my experience and I published a book on vaccines with a little over 1000 peer reviewed reports. Vaccine trials rarely use a real Placebo.
I recall the US based Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) being pleased that they had at least secured the requirement for just saline to be used for the covid jab trials - pleased because usually as you say they use placebos containing ingredients that could cause adverse reactions.
In my opinion, there are a lot of nocebo effects when it comes to food and nutrition. I have seen people become "physically" repulsed by foods they have consumed most of their life once they are told that that particular food is "unhealthy". They may actually feel nausea and/or other gastrointestinal symptoms. There is also the mistaken perception of a "sugar high"---especially in children---when this is physiologically impossible.
I agree 100%. I strongly suspect many if not most "food intolerances" are partially or wholly caused by expectation.
And I would place gluten sensitivity near the top of the list. They managed to create an entire industry around that.
To access full papers for free go to Sci-Hub.se and enter the DOI number, always begins with 10 and voila, the paper appears as a free download. I use it all the time.
It's great to see a follow up on your earlier article. It's such an important area. Thank you :)
On the topic of the effects of unblinded trials though I wonder also considering so many reports of these injections (not the placebos) having noticeable symptoms almost immediately whether the being able to notice immediately that you got an active ingredient injection would have caused a placebo effect itself making the non-placebo recipients far less likely to experience cold symptoms simply due to their belief in the product.
Actually furthermore they may have been too sick afterwards to notice cold symptoms or assumed due to general malaise (post jab) that any cold symptoms were just jab effects. Even Bill Gates was in the news saying recipients would quite possibly feel unwell - I thought at the time that was weird but maybe it was intentional. So had the real deal recipients caught a cold post injection they probably wouldn’t have reported it as cold symptoms writing it off as the expected side effects & not gotten tested. Enabling the reduced risk of infection reporting.
Enabling the ‘it reduced covid symptoms’ reporting too because after the significant adverse reaction any cold seemed like a walk in the park!🤡
All the TikTok action of newscasters keeling over and athletes collapsing 'commotio cordis' is psyops.
Also, to amplify the hysteria, the internets are bulging with planted accounts: people (usually anonymous but not always) saying they had this or that acute reaction to the voodoo jabs ('RNA injections'). Just like people (sometimes real sometimes fake) saying they had to see a heart doctor for their 'long covid tachycardia' or their 'jab-induced myocarditis'.
Even the professional medical literature is replete with publications written by psyop social-engineers with MD's and PhD's.
So little is ever written about the nocebo effect because of the massive harm which is caused by it: a sensitive test causing a misdiagnosis of a serious ailment, of course, puts massive stress on the individual and their families but also can lead to harmful treatments that make the non-existent problem worse. I suspect that many people had Covid due to the hysteria attached. This is among the reasons that I usually forego any diagnostic procedures if I am healthy and not having any problems. It's even worse than if it ain't broke don't fix it when the suggestion breaks things itself...
This book describes the nocebo effect resulting in real pain but with a psychological origin (vasoconstriction causing micro inflammation and real pain). I’ve experienced this myself.
An important read for you. I think it supports your hypothesis.
https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pain/dp/0446675156
There is some people who would present this phenomena in Darwin terms:
the more pills & jabs the stronger the placebo effect grows over time, as an adaptive defense mechanism. Eventually, it's a win-win scenario in which fewer and fewer pills & jabs are needed to achieve the same effects so that the overall pharmacological toxicity is mitigated...
It's evolutionary, Watson!
SSRI's would be more impressive if there were a black market for such molecules.
And when there is a black market for mood-altering molecules (i.e. Ritalin), the stuff gets vilified, and rightly so.
SSRI's for mild-to-moderate depression is hard to measure effectively, but the pills will probably be around for a long time to treat the vast OCD epidemic.
In fact, I had to read this passage seven times:
"At any rate, it appears that in OCD, as in other mental and non-mental disorders, placebo effect and responder rates are puzzlingly increasing and appear to be out of control, and this depends on multiple factors [137, 144], pointing to changing populations included in RCTs (independently from initial severity) and prompting to a revision of the RCT model. Given that this trend is not specifically bound to a single condition, it is possible that it reflects continuing human evolution."
Placebo Effect in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Placebo Response and Placebo Responders in OCD: The Trend Over Time
Curr Neuropharmacol. 2019 Aug;17(8):741–774
Given that belief in the safety and efficacy of most pharmaceuticals increasingly resembles a cult-like quasi-religious belief system, it doesn't surprise me that the placebo effect is increasing.
The increased placebo effect simply reflects the increasing prevalence of that belief system.
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