“A famine will not be cured by a psychological intervention, but over-eating might be.”
“At the moment, we spend many billions of dollars each year trying to improve drugs, but almost nothing, as far as I can see, on the better understanding of placebos; they look too much like alchemy, I guess.”
“The effects of these forces, they are not mysterious or magical, they are understandable, measurable, quantified.”
“In human behaviour psychological improvements are the only thing that matters, because we don’t make decisions objectively.”
