A new article describes a study in which doctors told patients they would just be getting a shot of vitamins, but instead gave them something a thousand times more powerful. Whether these subjects thought something strange was happening or not depended entirely upon what the doctors told them they should expect. This leads Jeff and Anthony to wonder just how much impact our conscious mind can have on our reality, and whether or not we can use this to our advantage.

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Article submitted by Sverrir Sigfussen: [ http://io9.com/this-moderately-immoral-study-shows-how-we-misidentify-1645992912](http://io9.com/this-moderately-immoral-study-shows-how-we-misidentify-1645992912)