It always surprises me when people say that homeopathy is no more effective than placebo, so it is therefore worthless. I view the placebo effect as huge, and fantastic and that anything that helps us to harness the effect is very worthwhile. Have you read scientific papers on the placebo effect? I ask that because there are a lot of different bodies of knowledge and research about medicines, placebo, drug companies and how they suppress negative evidence, critiques of scientific approaches to evidence gathering. Your T may have been exposed to different bodies of knowledge than you have. The more I read, the more it makes me question any of our knowledge, and any scientific research. I have a degree and two masters in science.