Placebos
http://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/5
This week we're talking about placebos. We cover placebo clothing, placebo surgeries, and how placebos are getting stronger over time.
Show Notes:
- Compression garments provide no measurable performance gain in sports, though they may help reduce muscle soreness if worn for 24 hours after exercise.
- Influence of compressive gear on powerlifting performance: role of blood flow restriction training.
- Powerlifting equipment
- Kinesio Tape
- Kinesio Taping - The Latest Sports Fad
- Nocebo effect
- Nocebo as a potential confounding factor in clinical trials for Parkinson's disease treatment: a meta-analysis
- DoubleBlinded.com - The Self Experimentation Platform
- Arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis is not an effective treatment, and helps people no more than fake surgery. Current guidelines argue against doing this procedure, however it remains a common occurrence.
- Peristalsis #EverybodyPoops
- QWOP
- The placebo effect has increased over time.
- That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
- Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy