The QE Placebo

I invented the Placebo Camera.

So firstly, trials against placebo everybody thinks they know that a trial should be a comparison of your new drug against placebo.

And of course, also there's the placebo effect.

But, actually, the point of placebo education is interesting.

Perhaps consult with your superior in Rome. My Superior?

And yet, repeatedly, you consistently see people doing trials still against placebo.

Lake Superior

Superior intellect?

So we do random assignment, placebo controlled, long term studies of different interventions.

Source Superior Courts

A Father Superior?

That one seems superior to the others.

What did Mother Superior say to you?

It enables me to be superior to myself.

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine.

(b) A superior who

Source Superior Electoral Court

Don't be so superior.

Stop being so superior.

Then I'll have to show it to Mother Superior.

Someone was actually suggesting that you can take this concept further, and actually produce placebo education.

So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo where one half of the people get the real treatment and the other half get placebo.

This carpet is superior to that one in quality.

He is superior to his opponents in all respects.

You were told to lay off by your superior.

I'm going to make a call with my superior

I mean, look, it doesn't take a double blind, placebo controlled study to figure out what makes a marriage not work.

The fact that you have Rome without coffee makes Rome with coffee look superior, and not just to Rome without coffee even superior to Paris.

In superior, Wisconsin, a preacher.

Could I see Sister Superior?

ANGELA This is Sister Superior.

Father Superior, they forgot this.

Two lost souls, Father Superior.

Second, threatening your superior officer.

Unmasking a superior it's impossible.

Far from it. You're far superior to all your lovers.

Would you want your mother, your brother, your sister to get a placebo if they had advanced lung cancer and had weeks to live?

For insulting a superior, wasn't it?

and Mother Superior is prosecuting me.

And this has been demonstrated in a whole raft of fascinating studies comparing one kind of placebo against another.

A guest should not try to make himself superior to the host.

Men like to see women cry. It makes them feel superior.

I've tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect.

He was as pale as death after talking to Mother Superior