{"id":679202,"date":"2010-03-01T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002713"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:32:27","slug":"economist-dan-ariely-sad-he-cant-use-airborne-for-placebo-effect-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679202","title":{"rendered":"Economist Dan Ariely Sad He Can&#8217;t Use Airborne For Placebo Effect Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/danariely-thumb-165x113-37610.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Everybody needs a good placebo to get them through the day. For Behavioral economist and Predictably Irrational author Dan Ariely, it used to be Airborne. Even though he was mainly sure it didn&#8217;t work, that faint glimmer was enough to keep him taking it and cold-free. Then he read new studies that said it was <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2008\/03\/claim-benefits-in-airborne-class-action-lawsuit.html\">totally placebo<\/a>. His placebo stopped working thereafter. Luckily, his mom has sent him a new placebo! And he feels right as rain. What&#8217;s your favorite placebo? [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/26\/economist-dan-ariely.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9qXO-JEamFo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody needs a good placebo to get them through the day. For Behavioral economist and Predictably Irrational author Dan Ariely, it used to be Airborne. Even though he was mainly sure it didn&#8217;t work, that faint glimmer was enough to keep him taking it and cold-free. Then he read new studies that said it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QGS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}