You should not discount just how effective placebos actually are!
Although I do recognize the potential for fraud here - they disclaimers they put on there should be more prominent.
> A 2001 Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of the placebo effect looked at trials in 40 different medical conditions, and concluded the only one where it had been shown to have a significant effect was for pain.[14] That's because placebos do not appear to affect the actual diseases, or outcomes that are not dependent on a patient's perception
I'd consider that a somewhat misleading citation for your assertion.
If you notice they don't make these things for any serious illness, they are all for things where the goal is simply to feel better, while the disease runs its ordinary course.