{"id":3164,"date":"2010-03-12T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandrosalsi.com\/blog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:13:01","slug":"the-magic-of-the-placebo-by-eric-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/the-magic-of-the-placebo-by-eric-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic of the placebo By Eric Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been bloggin for a few days. Things have gone a little crazy but I am back \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I watched this interesting short video on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a> and I thought I would share it with you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sugar pills, injections of nothing &#8212; studies show that, more often than you&#8217;d expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something&#8217;s not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.) (Recorded at TEDMED, October 2009 in San Diego, CA. Duration: 9:06)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/EricMead_2009P-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/EricMead-2009P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=792&#038;introDuration=16500&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=2000&#038;adKeys=talk=eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo;year=2009;theme=master_storytellers;theme=spectacular_performance;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDMED+2009;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/EricMead_2009P-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/EricMead-2009P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=792&#038;introDuration=16500&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=2000&#038;adKeys=talk=eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo;year=2009;theme=master_storytellers;theme=spectacular_performance;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDMED+2009;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been bloggin for a few days. Things have gone a little crazy but I am back \ud83d\ude42 I watched this interesting short video on TED and I thought I would share it with you. Sugar pills, injections of nothing &#8212; studies show that, more often than you&#8217;d expect, placebos really work. At &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/the-magic-of-the-placebo-by-eric-mead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Leggi tutto<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The magic of the placebo By Eric Mead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1964],"tags":[3368,3369,3370,3371,2155,3372,3373,3374,3375,3376,3377,3378,3379,3380],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-bloggin","tag-disturbed","tag-duration","tag-eric","tag-few-days","tag-magic","tag-magician","tag-mead","tag-needles","tag-placebo","tag-san-diego-ca","tag-sugar-pills","tag-ted","tag-tedmed","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}