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The Placebo Effect (Entry 946.IS3821)

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Is There a Control Group With Pets?

To this day, there's no widespread medical consensus on best ethical practices for placebos. In researching the drug, we realize that the drug is just a... You're not supposed to research the drug. So then I realize, oh, it's a compound of drugs that we can get over the counter and combine with our own mortar and pestle. It seems kind of suck. This might work, but there's a 50-50 chance that you're getting the bad stuff. We've got 50 people in this trial, and half of them are going to die.

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