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I'm intreagued as to how the mechanics of this works.
- give half the placebo, see if adrenaline is actually helping or hurting... not hard to figure outmonospaced
- So why give a placebo at all.Morning_star
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- They give the placebo to see if the adrenaline works or notmonospaced
- how can you not understand this?monospaced
- for example, if you claim homeopathy works, then you compare to a placebomonospaced
- see, the adrenaline is a last resort and can actually hurt more than it helps, so they're seeing if it helps at allmonospaced
- Two pills. One is adrenaline, one is placebo (non active sugar pill). Why give the placebo, the patient is unconscious?Morning_star
- To see if adrenaline actually works. I'm no sure if you're really this dense or just trolling me.monospaced
- If you didn't give them a placebo you'd still get the same result. Right? They're are often unconscious and unaware of the medical procedures going on So why give a placebo at all. It's a simple question. What is the placebo doing that is different from 'no pill'.Morning_star
- medical procedures going on So why give a placebo at all. It's a simple question. What is the placebo doing that is different from 'no pill'.Morning_star
- from the patient getting nothing.Morning_star
- it's a way of seeing if the adrenaline actually works or not, or if it's just unnecessarymonospaced
- it's quite possible the adrenaline doesn't work at all, and when it works it's just chancemonospaced
- I see what you mean though, why give anything at all if it's simply non-treatment?monospaced