The Truth About Placebos

" - - - we should provide companionship and positive attention without the pseudoscientific magical claims. In fact, you can do this while administering science-based treatments, or just as an intervention in themselves. We used to call this good bedside manner, or just good nursing care, now it is marketed to patients as a separate intervention wrapped in utter nonsense."

This is MUST reading for all who think placebos are ethical and harmless.  Just with religion, all alternatives to medicine are harmful in some way.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ethics-of-prescribing-worthless-treatments/