Placebos work -- even without deception

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I want them to do studies involving waving feathers and chanting.

I myself prefer "faith-beatings".

Decades ago, we stopped beating the demons out of people out of a misguided sense of compassion, and it's been cats and dogs fucking in the streets ever since.

We should beat the cancer out!

You just have to make sure that the beating kills the cancer faster than it kills the patient.

That's basically how we do it already, so why not?

We're gonna need some teensy, teensy truncheons.