From John Ling
I was fascinated by Feedback’s piece on drugs having side effects the same as the symptoms that they are supposed to fix (31 May). My suspicious mind wonders whether the drug companies are surreptitiously trying to cash in on the placebo effect to make up for the uselessness of their pills. If the placebo effect doesn’t get rid of the symptoms, they must be a “side effect” of the “drug”.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
