No standard for the placebo?
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 17:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Much of medicine is based on what is considered the strongest possible evidence: The placebo-controlled trial. A paper published in the October 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine entitled "What's In Placebos: Who Knows?" calls into question this foundation upon which much of medicine rests, by showing that there is no standard behind the standard no standard for the placebo.