> Having watched a control group lose 70% of the people while the people getting the real drug survived is just inhuman. Again, at this stage you're just asses

> Having watched a control group lose 70% of the people while the people getting the real drug survived is just inhuman. Again, at this stage you're just assessing if the treatment even works. The point isn't to fix one group and screw over another, the whole point is that you don't know if the drug is going to do anything. It's much easier to tell if a treatment is worth giving to everyone if you first do the correctly controlled trials. It seems like you're coming at this from a place of assuming the treatment is going to work from the get go, which is not true for the majority of treatments that undergo this kind of trial. Moreover, many treatments have side effects that, again, are much easier to look at if you can compared them to a group that went through the exact same handling. Even small, seemingly innocuous things like going to a hospital to talk to an interested person about how you're doing can have an effect on health readouts that may be relevant to a study. Or maybe the stress of sitting down having this weird hat put on your head affects something. Or maybe some much less obvious aspect of the study. The point of the control is that you cancel out all of these kinds of effects, obvious or otherwise, so that the ONLY difference is the treatment. Controls also help with allowing double blinded studies. If the researchers know who is receiving treatment and who is receiving placebo, they can unconsciously influence the results, especially for things like behavioral surveys that aren't as objective as, say, taking blood and seeing if you have more or less cancer cells. Obviously you can't have this kind of blinding if the researchers know every single person is getting the real treatment.