Nocebo is the scientific term for the creation of a negative expectation that results in reducing or negating the value of a treatment.
There was a high nocebo effect created by the fact that the drug has an extremely high risk for a combination of severe side effects including severe brain damage, impotancy, kidney failure, uncontrolable spasms, suicide, farting, diarrhea, serility, genetic mutations, birth defects, uncontrolable anger, sleep walking naked in front of large groups of people, cancerous lesions on the skin, ridecule from friends, quarantine and issolation for 6 months, etc.
by mlhiss March 31, 2008
He was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and given 6 months to live. He died but he didn't have cancer, the cause of death was nocebo.
by Moonrunner47 February 6, 2019
1. The reverse of the placebo effect.
2. It's when you expect to hate something and you end up hating it.
2. It's when you expect to hate something and you end up hating it.
1. Kennedy chose the Latin word nocebo ("I shall harm") because it was the opposite of the Latin word placebo ("I shall please"), and used it to denote the counterpart of the placebo response: namely, an "unpleasant" response to the application of real or sham treatment.
2. I hated the food because I expected it to suck. That's nocebo effect for ya.
2. I hated the food because I expected it to suck. That's nocebo effect for ya.
by swvfan April 29, 2012
by LowKey January 25, 2019