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We easily accept that a sugar pill can cure a headache, dismissing it as the power of the mind. But what if the mind is powerful enough to cure a torn meniscus? For decades, hundreds of thousands of patients underwent painful, expensive arthroscopic knee surgeries, swearing by the miraculous relief it provided. Then, a brave group of surgeons decided to test the procedure against a terrifying control group: fake surgery.Scalpels and Sugar Pills delves into the most controversial clinical trials in modern medical history. In these "sham surgeries," patients were put under anesthesia, incisions...