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The cover story marvels at the placebo effect and wonders whether we should allow doctors to prescribe placebos.
The issue is very different: we want to rule out placebo effects (or the "meaning response" [ 34 ] ), meaning that we want exclude the possibility that the observed effect stemmed from the patient's belief that she was given a particular therapy.
6% versus 7.7% for placebo, 12.
Furthermore, an upper limit of lesion volume at enrollment would permit an opportunity for lesion growth and may better differentiate the effect on lesion size of an effective treatment from placebo.
This phenomenon has long confounded research on vitamin C, which, after almost two-dozen studies, has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in colds beyond its placebo effect.