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Why does the placebo complexity make a call for regulation and study disclosure "utter bullshit"?
by ahoyhere 14y ago
Why does the placebo complexity make a call for regulation and study disclosure "utter bullshit"?
- tptacek 14y agoAgain: it didn't simply call for "regulation" and "disclosure". It overtly accused pharma companies of using active placebos for marketing purposes, of haphazardly endangering participants in trials, and then later suggested that the whole concept of active placebos might reasonably be outlawed. The post we're commenting on made a series of outlandishly ignorant assertions. That there are reasonable challenges we might make to the way active placebos are handled does not make the article better. You're a great writer. Maybe you should write a good article on the perils of undisclosed/underdisclosed active placebos? Because this particular article doesn't appear to be good.