Ironically placebos work so well in almost all cases that placebo results actually screw the data a bit. The human fucking mind is crazy yo
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Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Man, imagine slowly dying of late-stage lung cancer, then getting picked to be in a trial for a drug that could greatly improve your situation, but you get put in the control group. Placebos will still cure cancer if you think they will, right?
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Drusas@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Similarly, the nocebo effect also works!
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
The AMA has a section in their code of ethics about when and how to use a placebo in situations like this.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 6 hours ago
Placebo knee surgery literally works
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That would be because we now know many cartilage related knee surgeries do not.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
That’s exactly what I was going to say!
“Your cancer is very advanced, and without intervention, you will be dead within the year. We’re running a clinical trial on an experimental immunotherapy vaccine that can dramatically improve your outcomes. You’re in the control group, here’s a placebo.”
awfulawful@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.