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You know you are taking a sugar pill with a demonstrated effect. That might do it. How would you do a trial for that? Placebo placebo?
by jonsen 17y ago
You know you are taking a sugar pill with a demonstrated effect. That might do it.
How would you do a trial for that? Placebo placebo?
- patio11 17y agoYou could offer multiple placebos. For example, here you have your basic generic white placebo which costs $5 a pill, which we all know is totally worthless because it is made out of sugar. Now, you sir are insured, so if you want you can have this cutting edge blue PlaCeBo (TM) -- just between you and me, it costs like $80 a pill and has nothing in it but sugar but who cares, insurance covers it. Alternatively we have the PlaSeBo which is the cheap Chinese knockoff and hasn't killed anybody this week that we know of, not that that is too surprising, because it is made out of sugar.
- charltones 17y agoThere have been trials of placebos against placebos. That's how it has been established that more placebos are more effective than fewer and also how the shape and colour of the tablets relates to their effectiveness. If you want some references on this, look up Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. It's a good read, btw.