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Two-thirds of corona jab reactions caused by placebo effect - study
2022-01-21
[JPost] WTF??
A third of clinical trial participants who received no vaccine reported systemic adverse advents including headache and fatigue.

More than two-thirds of the common side-effects people experience after a corona shot can be attributed to a negative version of the placebo effect rather than the vaccine itself, new research indicates.

Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston examined data from 12 clinical trials of COVID vaccines and found the "nocebo effect" accounted for 76% of all common adverse reactions after the first dose, and nearly 52% after the second dose. A third of clinical trial participants who received no vaccine reported systemic adverse events like headache and fatigue.
Once again expectations drive the experience. One year for a Christmas party I divided a cookie recipe in thirds, colouring one part green, one part red, and leaving one part plain. About half the guests tasted the green cookies as pistachio and half tasted green as mint; about half tasted the red ones as peppermint, while half tasted it as cinnamon; and about half tasted the plain ones as vanilla. I’d used vanilla for the whole batch, with no other flavours added. The interesting thing was that half the crowd were engineers and chemists who worked professionally with perfumes and shaping consumer expectations using perfumes, so should have been more attuned to what they were smelling and tasting.
The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that a large proportion of milder side-effects such as headaches, short-term fatigue and arm pain are not produced by the vaccine itself, but by other factors thought to generate the nocebo response, such as anxiety.

"Adverse events after placebo treatment are common in randomized controlled trials," said lead author Julia W. Haas, PhD, an investigator in the Program in Placebo Studies at BIDMC. "Collecting systematic evidence regarding these nocebo responses in vaccine trials is important for COVID-19 vaccination worldwide, especially because concern about side effects is reported to be a reason for vaccine hesitancy."
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Posted by:Frank G

#4  Not just admitting; JPost admitting.

2/3 are so skeptical of what they are being told, they imagine symptoms.

Headline kind of poo-poos "scared bugwit shitless."

Heckuva job everyone. Heckuva job.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-21 17:33  

#3  Finally admitting there are adverse events. That’s something. Now we just have to believe the brand new meds just happen to be the safest ones ever developed. Seems legit.
Posted by: Ebbaise Brown5939   2022-01-21 07:54  

#2  Walter Cannon MD wrote about "voodoo" deaths in 1942 and his term has gone down in history. Corona jab "deaths" as placebo effects would then be a type of "voodoo" death according to the thinking behind this article. But even Dr. Cannon in his original article warned:
Obviously, the possible use of poisons must be excluded before “voodoo” death can be accepted as an actual consequence of sorcery or witchcraft.

or negative placebo effects of corona jabs.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-21 00:31  

#1  "The remaining one-third collapsed and died immediately of anaphylactic shock."

No mention of the number of participants or what the non-common side effects were. Warning lights are flashing...
Posted by: SteveS   2022-01-21 00:21  

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