Placebo
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In the animals that receive a
placebo
injection, when we scan them a month later, we see that ejection fraction is unchanged, because the heart, of course, doesn't spontaneously recover.
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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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