Dummy
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Another 50 patients got a
dummy
placebo sugar pill with no active ingredient, and only one of them died.
More example sentences with word dummy
We know from three different studies on three different types of pain that a saltwater injection is a more effective treatment than a sugar pill, a
dummy
pill with no medicine in it, not because the injection or pills do anything physically to the body, but because an injection feels like a much more dramatic intervention.
In fact, seven trials were conducted comparing reboxetine against a
dummy
placebo sugar pill.
And you might notice the bum on the sidewalk here who is boozing and his ventriloquist
dummy
is puking.
It so happens that sight, sound, and movement already map to one another so closely, that even bad ventriloquists convince us that the
dummy
is talking.
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