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To avoid possible confounding factors, such as greater risk-taking by those who know they have been vaccinated, or the desire of those conducting the trial to show that the vaccine works, the study is “double blind”: Neither the subjects nor those administering the trial and collecting the data know who got the vaccine and who got the placebo.

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And of course, there's the placebo effect, one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine.

And this has been demonstrated in a whole raft of fascinating studies comparing one kind of placebo against another.

So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo, where one half of the people get the real treatment, and the other half get placebo.

So firstly, trials against placebo: everybody thinks a trial should be a comparison of your new drug against placebo.

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