Date & Time: 28th April 2026 7:30pm
Venue: The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, Bristol BS2 0DF
The placebo effect is one of the most powerful medical responses there is. It can cure your knee pain, relieve your asthma, or even help you lose weight. This isn’t wishy-washy alternative New Age nonsense, it works in animals, it works in children, and it even works when you think it won’t.
So why does the best evidence tell us that none of this is true? Why does the data show that placebos perform no better than doing nothing? And how is this myth so deeply ingrained and unquestioned in modern medicine?
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Mike Hall is a software engineer and Doctor Who fan, not in that order. He is the producer and host of the long-running podcast Skeptics with a K, part of the organising committee for the award winning skeptical conference QED, and is co-founder and director of the Merseyside Skeptics Society.
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