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The placebo effect was discovered when someone took a sugar pill and felt superior. Confidence is medicinal.

✗ FAKE
The placebo effect has been recognized for centuries, and modern study was advanced by Henry Beecher in 1955. It is a real effect, but its discovery did not involve feeling superior.

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