Placebo in example sentence

But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.

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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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