spacetwinks:

spacetwinks:

the fact that placebos can work even when you know they’re placebos is so fucked up. what the hell is up with the brain

like some kind of fucked up wrinkled goblin that won’t unlock the chemical secrets if you just ask politely, you have to give it some kind of pill. you can tell it that the pill doesn’t do shit, but it doesn’t care, it just wants the pill