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...term “placebo?? has been around for centuries; it originates from the Latin for “I shall please,” which then developed into a derogatory term for a medication aimed at pleasing the patient more than healing him. Today, it refers to a simple sugar pill used in clinical trials as a control to judge the effectiveness of new drugs. Ironically, the placebo today tends to equal or even surpass modern pharmaceuticals in effectiveness: the “placebo effect.” Placebos are relevant in our lives in not just...
...have some complaints about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet we also realize that without the FDA medicine might have been nothing but leeches and placebo??isn’t it time to take the same systematic approach to economic policies that are so central to our society...
Although their experimentation on Black Market Music doesn’t always pay off, Placebo??s willingness to change bodes well for their future development. —Daniel M. Raper
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