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Medical Trials Ignore this Placebo Effect

By Ben Harder

Posted: October 30, 2007

A thought-provoking paragraph I read last weekend makes me wonder whether medical investigators are sometimes fooling themselves when they conclude that an experimental drug works better than a placebo.

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This blog is the public workshop of U.S. News writer and editor Ben Harder. In articles published in the magazine, he has covered a range of sciences, including medicine, human behavior, prehistory, and evolution. Here, he can explore those and other scientific fields more fully and more informally than is possible in print. He'll share whatever seems noteworthy or potentially useful, and he invites readers to do the same.

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