d@n

i'm d@n shick. i'm a system administrator and writer in san francisco, and this is my medium-sized blog, for when i'm too lazy to write in the big one and too hyper to write in the little one.

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When Columbia University psychiatrist B. Timothy Walsh analyzed 75 trials of antidepressants conducted between 1981 and 2000, he discovered that the rate of response to placebos, which are, of course, nothing more than sugar pills, increased by about seven percent per decade. Simply because people thought they were taking the all-powerful medicines, they thought they were getting better.

— The Brain: A Mindless Obsession? (via filled with chocolate pudding) (via nickdouglas)

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