I read something recently that I found quite astounding and that is that BIG Pharma tampers with placebos or sugar pills in order to manipulate the outcome of double blind, placebo controlled drug tests. I have written extensively about placebo’s right here on this blog. However, if you have put your confidence and your very life in the hands of the people who conduct these tests, please read this:
The placebo is part of the hallowed halls of medical science and professionals everywhere rely on them. We see and trust the term “placebo-controlled clinical trial and immediately most people think that this has got to mean something important?
To the ‘evidenced based’ afficianado’s, these trials mean, you can trust the results…in a nut shell, that their new drug has been compared to a “sugar pill” and this therefore proved how good it is.
There’s a lot people out there, myself…
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