医師も患者もフェイクな治療法であることを知っていて、なおかつプラセボ効果は効くのか? van Deventerはこれがあるのだという「メタプラセボ仮説」を提示している:van Deventer MO.: "Meta-placebo: do doctors have to lie about giving a fake treatment?", Med Hypotheses. 2008 Sep;71(3):335-9. Epub 2008 May 15 Fake treatments work. That is a well established medical fact. This is why the golden standard of evidence-based medicine requires double-blind testing. Both real and fake