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What's the functional difference between that and a clinical trial, from the perspective of the patients?

• internet_user 7y ago
  It would be essentially a clinical trial, an open-label one. There even have been several blinded trials, that were discontinued mid-way, because the drugs being tested were so effective. To continue giving placebo and denying obvious cure would be unethical, and so the trial was stopped, placebo arm cancelled - and everyone got the actual medicine.
• ferzul 7y ago
  in a trial, you get invited and you might be placeboed out as a control. in the “just try it and see scenario”, you offer it as a possibility, and everyone who ops in, gets it. it might not be as scientifically rigorous, but that's a big difference to the patient who suffers from receiving a placebo instead of the real deal