http://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/5

This week we're talking about placebos. We cover placebo clothing, placebo surgeries, and how placebos are getting stronger over time.

Show Notes:

• Compression garments provide no measurable performance gain in sports, though they may help reduce muscle soreness if worn for 24 hours after exercise.
• Influence of compressive gear on powerlifting performance: role of blood flow restriction training.
• Powerlifting equipment
• Kinesio Tape
• Kinesio Taping - The Latest Sports Fad
• Nocebo effect
• Nocebo as a potential confounding factor in clinical trials for Parkinson's disease treatment: a meta-analysis
• DoubleBlinded.com - The Self Experimentation Platform
• Arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis is not an effective treatment, and helps people no more than fake surgery. Current guidelines argue against doing this procedure, however it remains a common occurrence.
• Peristalsis #EverybodyPoops
• QWOP
• The placebo effect has increased over time.
• That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
• Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy