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posted by [identity profile] ex-robhu.livejournal.com at 09:44pm on 06/02/2006
I wonder if you get a placebo type effect in animals... hmm...
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posted by [identity profile] mhw.livejournal.com at 12:58pm on 16/02/2006
I'd be very surprised if you didn't. Simply paying attention to an experimental group changes their behaviour.
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 03:53pm on 29/07/2009
"Where treatments were grouped into categories such as ‘homeopathy used’ vs ‘homeopathy not used’, there did not seem to be any differences between the groups in their effect on disease."

So, no :->

http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=AW1020_6045_FRP.doc
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posted by [identity profile] ex-robhu.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 29/07/2009
That just means that animals don't get the placebo effect with homeopathy.
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posted by [identity profile] brokenhut.livejournal.com at 08:18am on 30/07/2009
Placebo effect works very well on *owners* though. Which is doubly cruel: the patient's needs are ignored but the bill payer feels warm and fuzzy. Homeopathic veterinary is disgustingly unethical.
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posted by [identity profile] ex-robhu.livejournal.com at 09:09am on 30/07/2009
I can believe that the placebo effect might work on animals. You'd have to find something that the animal thought might help it but actually makes no difference - like maybe animals like eating green things, so if you dye their food green or something.
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posted by [identity profile] deliberateblank.livejournal.com at 06:40pm on 08/01/2010
The fact that its owner appears to be taking more care of it and doing things they don't normally do.

(In human subjects, the placebo effect works even if you don't believe in it, and presentation, location, delivery method and the appearance of the therapist can all alter the strength of the effect.)
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