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Here's a link that goes to several of Richard's recent podcasts and his main site. If this link doesn't work, I added it to the main story in an edit.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-deep-state-consciousness-podcast/id1338867921

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In our podcast conversation, Richard and I discuss the "placebo effect" vs. the "nocebo effect." (I hope I got the spelling of the latter term right).

The Placebo Effect makes some people think they've been "cured" by a medicine that hasn't done anything to help them.

In contrast, the Nocebo Effect, causes some people to panic and experience great stress (which isn't good for their mental and perhaps physical health) because they've been fed "misinformation" or "disinformation" about some allegedly deadly virus.

This can actually create the "symptoms" of the alleged disease. So when doctors prescribe some extreme medical protocol, the patient is more likely to go along with said treatment ("you HAVE to go on a ventilator, we have to give you this drug," etc). Also, doctors and nurses are more likely to think this patient has severe Covid because they are convinced these patients do and that they are manifesting some of the clinical traits of such patients.

So the false panic actually produces more "cases" ... and ultimately more "Covid deaths."

FWIW, I don't think this psychological dynamic has gotten nearly enough attention.

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