Yeah, wow, clearly no one has ever thought of that one.
As the adage goes, it’s easy to be a conspiracy theorist when you don’t know how anything works.
If only someone invented control trials.
What about placebo required studies for Vitamin A and Cod Liver Oil?
This administration won’t be happy until dumbass brain worm kills a lot more Americans.
As someone disabled, I have a bad feeling about how they’ll decide which groups of people get the placebo vaccine…
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Have there been any studies that show placebo effect doesn’t really apply to infectious disease? I would wager that there is one, if not several.
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Wouldn’t the unvaccinated public, exposed in the early days of a pandemic, then be an effective control?
1: afaik placebos have no effect on vaccines that’s correct, because it’s not something that’s subjective… you either have an infection or you don’t: you can’t think yourself better
2: the way we do efficacy trials is already exactly this: we give trial participants the vaccine and compare their infection rates to known infection rates in the general population that match the demographics of the trial participants as closely as possible
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