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Harmful actions taken against individuals, practices, or policies that acknowledge or utilize the placebo effect. This can include harassing clinicians who incorporate placebo‑enhancing communication, sabotaging research on placebo mechanisms, or publicly shaming patients who report benefit from placebo treatments. Anti‑placebo violence is often rationalized as “defending science” but actually causes real damage: it discourages compassionate care, silences patients, and narrows the range of acceptable healing modalities. It is a form of epistemic violence that prioritizes ideological purity over human well‑being.
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