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How Drug Companies Game the Placebo Effect
Statbusters
Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard of drug testing—but companies can easily tweak the system in their favor.
Andrew Gelman
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Published
Nov. 3 2015
1:00AM EST
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