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Dec. 7th, 2017 05:59 pmhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-are-you-there/
Very interesting piece - a translation of a 2015 French paper that argues we colloquially overstate the placebo effect by quite a lot. The authors argue that many studies reporting a large effect fail to take into account statistical and other factors, and suffer from methodological flaws. Basically, drug studies can be sloppy.
(I'm having a lot of trouble writing content posts. SAD is in full swing, Arisia is heating up and consuming lots of my extra hours, and now I'm down with a cold. Yay, go me.)
Very interesting piece - a translation of a 2015 French paper that argues we colloquially overstate the placebo effect by quite a lot. The authors argue that many studies reporting a large effect fail to take into account statistical and other factors, and suffer from methodological flaws. Basically, drug studies can be sloppy.
(I'm having a lot of trouble writing content posts. SAD is in full swing, Arisia is heating up and consuming lots of my extra hours, and now I'm down with a cold. Yay, go me.)
