Cough medicine bomba

[TVC15]

Over the counter cough medicine, even those with real, active ingredients, do not appear to be more effective than the placebo in a controlled test.

http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/86/3/170

You may as well tell the kid the spoonfull of piss your giving him is actual cough medicine.  It will work just about the same as long as he believes it.

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Stolen from this week's Skeptoid--one of their best eps ever--in which the placebo effect (and how it's not always a bad thing), is explained in detail

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4151

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I drank a whole bottle of Delsym and it seemed pretty effective. 

Actually, now that I think about it I just felt kinda drunk and couldn't sleep.....never got the hallucinogenic euphoria I was promised.  But I didn't cough at all.

[Van Cruncheon]

then why is it so DELICIOUS

[Flannel Boy]

As a child when I was sick and couching, I was forced to drink a spoonful of onion juice--yes onion juice!

[Diunx]

I love cough medicine, its great for insomnia.

Sometimes I had to drink some green shit with onions and other stuff in it, I can still remember the flavor

[TVC15]

The concept of onions and cough syrup is, yes, making me nauseous.  That is the most disgusting combo I have heard of in weeks.

[Diunx]

That delicious mint flavor= BULLSHIT.

[lordmaji]

Tussinex is a great cough med!

[Yeti]

I used to take my cough medicine with an alligator spoon. If I still had one I'd probably be addicted to cough syrup.

[Barry Egan]

As a child when I was sick and couching, I was forced to drink a spoonful of onion juice--yes onion juice!

Damn.  I got delicious Flinstone's vitamins. 

[drew]

if there are pancakes in hell robitussin dm is the syrup

[TVC15]

NyQuil tastes way worse.  If Robitussin DM is pancake syrup in hell, then NyQuil is the water.

[Bocsius]

This explains why cold medicine never works for me and halls have the same effect as a piece of hard candy.

[Joe Molotov]

Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.

[TVC15]

Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.

Dimetapp grape tastes great.  I could drink that all day.

[Joe Molotov]

Cough syrup is so gross, it makes you not want to cough.

Dimetapp grape tastes great.  I could drink that all day.

Okay, I'll give you that. Dimetapp is good.

[Beezy]

As a child when I was sick and couching