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"Sugar pill" is a generic term for an inactive substance. It doesn't contain a meaningful amount of sugar, and similar effects are present using other substance
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
"Sugar pill" is a generic term for an inactive substance. It doesn't contain a meaningful amount of sugar, and similar effects are present using other substances. How would we test diabetes medicine if the only options were either medicine or sugar?
Trying to claim the placebo effect is from taking a tiny amount of sugar is silly. If sugar alone was curing things, the US would basically never get sick.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoNo, placebo is a generic term for a presumably inactive substance. I quoted the article. They gave people sugar in this case.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoAnd lactose, along with fillers. Why do you think it was the tiny quantity of sugar not the tiny quantity of milk?
- DoreenMichele 4y agoLactose is just another form of sugar.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoYeah, I should have highlighted the fillers instead of the lactose, I realized my mistake shortly after posting. It's really not the point, claiming the tiny amount of sugar is the cause is ridiculous. This one experiment didn't test multiple placebos, but other's have.