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Well, in your capacity as a medical doctor, do you know of any diseases that have a history of a swathe of patients with remissions/improvements that last for years attributed to the placebo effect? Is there reasonable precedent here?

So @Jonathan Edwards , it would be fair to say you believe ME/CFS is not a disease and ME/CFS sufferers can have remissions/improvements that last for years due simply to the placebo effect?

I would. FYI, because many of us have been on the receiving end of a medical lie, and it matters that that be exposed.

I wouldn't. Nor would I rest my argument on such an ill-defined, amorphous concept. I'd simply say it is unclear why people got well when indications are they shouldn't have, so more research is needed. As I said, placebo is little more than a medical placeholder, and I find it inadequate and...