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When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me.

• phony-account 2y ago
  > When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me Because people dying of covid are just “imagining it”?
  • analog31 2y ago
    I hope you don't think that covid is imaginary. The article explains well enough that "drug free" doesn't mean inactive. So it's more a matter of what a "drug" consists of.
    • hedora 2y ago
      In this context, “drug-free” should probably be read as “they got permission to skip clinical trials, drug manufacturing oversight, Drug Facts labeling laws, and so on”.
      • analog31 2y ago
        Ah, then maybe "placebo" wasn't such a bad guess after all.