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placebo controlled studies are not really possible for psychedelics anyways. There's literally no way someone takes a high dose of it and doesn't figure out the
by luckydata 5y ago
placebo controlled studies are not really possible for psychedelics anyways. There's literally no way someone takes a high dose of it and doesn't figure out they have taken psychedelics. You need slightly different tools for this type of studies so I think they are comparing effectiveness instead.
- pmoriarty 5y agoActually, I've heard a researcher say that in the MDMA studies they ran, some people who were given placebos experienced a full breakthrough, with lots of emotion, crying, and therapeutic benefit and swore that they were given MDMA. It probably also helped that these were people who'd never tried MDMA.. so they didn't really know what to expect. Also, in microdosing studies, I think even sugar pills could be very effective placebos.