Comments on: Placebo Treatments work even if you know they’re fake http://rosacea-support.org/placebo-treatments-work-even-if-you-know-theyre-fake.html Where the rosacea community meets to support each other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: E.L. Hodge http://rosacea-support.org/placebo-treatments-work-even-if-you-know-theyre-fake.html/comment-page-1#comment-36071 E.L. Hodge Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:40:23 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/?p=2158#comment-36071 I trust that article was peer reviewed, Gaelle, otherwise I will have to retain my quirky faith in parachutes. Placebo comes from 'please' or 'placate.' Placate better catches the spirit. In some Derm offices, 'placate' is pronounced MEH-TRO -JEL. I trust that article was peer reviewed, Gaelle, otherwise I will have to retain my quirky faith in parachutes.

Placebo comes from ‘please’ or ‘placate.’ Placate better catches the spirit.

In some Derm offices, ‘placate’ is pronounced MEH-TRO -JEL.

]]> By: Gaelle Kennedy http://rosacea-support.org/placebo-treatments-work-even-if-you-know-theyre-fake.html/comment-page-1#comment-36060 Gaelle Kennedy Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:49:45 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/?p=2158#comment-36060 Mumbo jumbo placebo pills called RoseaPlacebo would not be a first. Far from it. In fact, the data about mood disorder drugs, especially anti-depressives for instance, show that they do not work for the vast majority of people who are prescribed them. Yet the right to sell them is based on alleged efficacy as demonstrated in the great and holy arena of double blind clinical trials. There was a fun article in The Lancet a couple of years ago pointing out that the use of parachutes in cases of severe gravity challenge had not been subject to double blind study and hence parachutes could not be considered safe and effective interventions for people who fell or jumped out of airplanes. The authors also pointed out that cases where people had died as a result of severe gravity challenge had not been studied to address potential co-morbidities such as smoking which could have skewed the data. The actual experience of survivors was dismissed as "ancedotal" and without scientific merit. When Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea. Same thing with the application of science to new drug development. Mumbo jumbo placebo pills called RoseaPlacebo would not be a first. Far from it. In fact, the data about mood disorder drugs, especially anti-depressives for instance, show that they do not work for the vast majority of people who are prescribed them. Yet the right to sell them is based on alleged efficacy as demonstrated in the great and holy arena of double blind clinical trials.

There was a fun article in The Lancet a couple of years ago pointing out that the use of parachutes in cases of severe gravity challenge had not been subject to double blind study and hence parachutes could not be considered safe and effective interventions for people who fell or jumped out of airplanes. The authors also pointed out that cases where people had died as a result of severe gravity challenge had not been studied to address potential co-morbidities such as smoking which could have skewed the data. The actual experience of survivors was dismissed as “ancedotal” and without scientific merit.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea. Same thing with the application of science to new drug development.

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