Oh, and my call sign, nocebo, is the opposite of the well-known term in medical testing procedures, the placebo, which is a treatment without any clinical effect but which has healing effects solely because of the positive psychological effects of being cared for. The nocebo effect was noticed in patients who were afraid of harmful side effects of their treatments and who still got them even though they were given harmless treatments, placebos. I have had the same effect on people for many years: People who believe I will harm them when I criticize their ideas or expressions of them, have harmed themselves (and sometimes others) because of this false belief, while I am actually completely harmless.
-- Erik Naggum, 2009