A slight misunderstanding
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lederhosenVia Mediawatch, transcript of '9 AM with David and Kim', discussing the recent UK drug trial disaster:
David Reyne: Some of these guys were given a placebo.
Dr. David Ritchie: Correct
David Reyne: I don’t really understand what a placebo is, but it seems to have, to have saved them! And wouldn’t it make sense that every time a trial like this takes place, that there’s a placebo on hand.
*sigh*
Exercise yesterday: 10km. Total 191km/115mi. Captured by Barrow-wights.
David Reyne: Some of these guys were given a placebo.
Dr. David Ritchie: Correct
David Reyne: I don’t really understand what a placebo is, but it seems to have, to have saved them! And wouldn’t it make sense that every time a trial like this takes place, that there’s a placebo on hand.
*sigh*
Exercise yesterday: 10km. Total 191km/115mi. Captured by Barrow-wights.
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Date: 2006-04-06 04:35 am (UTC)Thanks for the inspiration! I'm off to re-read the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Placebo.