On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:52:48 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <
fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
he myth of Mozart: Study shows music has no effect on epilepsy symptoms
Placebo Reactor ?
IT is often believed that there exist, in the community, certain
individuals who are 'placebo reactors', and that these individuals
must be excluded from a controlled clinical trial if the 'true'
effects of the drug in question are to be correctly assessed. Glaser
expressed the extreme view when he wrote "a dummy" [that is, a pharmacologically inert substance] "identifies those patients who can
be disregarded, either because they need no treatment or else because
they can be cured by psychological influences, and this is as
reasonable a procedure as the exclusion from experiments with
anti-asthmatic drugs of patients who do not have attacks of bronchial
asthma".
https://www.nature.com/articles/199308a0
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