Science wins again

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Then I might be in need of actual medication to address my headaches, sweating and nausea.”

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s actually not uncommon. People expect and manifest symptoms all the time.

    What side effects a drug would be likely to cause, the pharmacologist likely knows long before ever giving it to a human. When the human reports side effects that the drug is unlikely to cause…that human was probably a placebo.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So i can get a headache only by placebo?? Wait, can it happen in reverse? Like, i have an headache and i convince myseld that i took a cure for it

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    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s why when I saw the long list of side effects of the medication for quit smoking I never read it, I gave it to a friend and ask her if whatever was one of the possible side effects.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And that’s why we do them double blind, so the scientist can’t mock the participants. That is the only reason.

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  • schema@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s only real double blind if you never check who got what.

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “I don’t know why you guys are happy. The gold standard is double-blind, and you couldn’t even do that.”

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would be great answer. Make them retract their paper!! Science & revenge, my two favorite things to have in this cruel world :')

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• FundMECFS@quokk.au ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is kind of unfair because in properly done trials patients are told to report all symptoms they experienced in the period whether or not they think it was caused by the drug. Then you compare possible side effect incidence between the placebo and treatment group. And any statistically significant difference is very likely the side effect of the drug. (Humans are pretty bad with causality, so it works a lot more accurately this way, especially in well powered studies).

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  • rando895@lemmygrad.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nneeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrdddddddd

    But only as a term of endearment.

    And also, it’s a silly comic

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• Tehdastehdas@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe he’s allergic to what the placebo was made of.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Turns out it was a giant sugar pill, and he is diabetic.

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  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe he is sick and dying from poisoning while they do experiments on him. As usual.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Science!

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