Tim Ferriss

I think that Ashley... No, it's not Ashley Vance.

There's another author.

But read any book written by a credible scientist or science journalist about the placebo effect.

All right.

And... If that is not one of the weirdest...

collections of verifiable data you've ever seen.

I mean, you look at any given study with an intervention, like a drug or whatever, you look at the supplemental materials, like, there's almost always gonna be someone in the control arm with a placebo who showed just as much effect.

With nothing.

With nothing.

Whether it's a surgery, whether it's a powerful drug, psychedelic even.

And so, there are a few questions that come to mind, right?

It's like, well,

These are just normal people.

They're not biochemists.

They couldn't tell you how psychedelics act on the brain.

So it's not like they're... rolling their eyes back and going in and trying to... affect certain enzymes or whatever.

They have no idea.

And yet, they are reporting the same, not just effect, but magnitude of effect as matches the other people.

What the hell is going on?

I don't know.