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This document is a scanned page from 'The New Yorker' dated December 12, 2011, bearing a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, indicating it is part of a congressional investigation (likely related to Jeffrey Epstein's connections to Harvard/scientific community, though Epstein is not named in this specific text). The article, 'The Power of Nothing' by Michael Specter, profiles Ted Kaptchuk, a Harvard researcher and former acupuncturist who directs the Program in Placebo Studies. The text details Kaptchuk's early career in the 1970s and his scientific inquiry into how suggestion, ritual, and belief influence medical outcomes.