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Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?

George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.41, University of Pennsylvania Press

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Edmund Burke (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society”, p.143