Winner of the 2024 Ig Nobel prize for Medicine goes to a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects (full-text link in comment).

I’ve linked to the primary source, the journal article, in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the article about the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel prizes.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses

From the linked article – scroll down to see the reference to this study.

Medicine
Won by a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.

Here is a link to the full-text preprint version of the article:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.22.23298877v1.full