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Originally Posted by SiuiS
They don't. They have to let you know you are part of a trial, and that it may involve getting a placebo, but they aren't having you sign a document about
PLACEBOS, and that you might be taking PLACEBOS and should have conversations about PLACEBOS with your doctor. PLACEBOS. They don't make a big deal of it, because teu don't have to. There's no reason for patients to be suspicious, especially if they volunteered for the trial (which is the standard, as I understand it). The kind of people who would worry about whether they are getting a placebo or not is not the type who would be willing to go through a test anyway. Isn't that job like, discussing side effects an stuff too? The list of side effects from medicines nowadays is worse than the ailment usually.
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I figured they didn't. I was expressing doubts about the idea proposed by noparlpf who appeared to me to want to do something slightly less extreme but no less emphatic.
My point was that I don't think it's a good idea to place undue emphasis on the placebo when you're prepping people for the experiment.
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Originally Posted by Heliomance
Yeah. I usually do when I'm in girl mode.
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Well... Now you know not to?
It seems painful enough to not want to repeat at any rate.
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Originally Posted by noparlpf
Yeah, I'm familiar with the what's-his-name effect, though I never remember the name, and the issues in the kibbutzim.
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Westermarck or Westermark, I think.