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Richard, in the article you mentioned: "How would you set about administering a dummy, or placebo needle-prick."
This very experiment has been tried, with specially-created dummy needles whose point telescopes up into the shaft. It's detailed in "Trick or Treatment" by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
Needles(s) to say, the results were inconclusive.
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