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[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 2 points 15 hours ago

Because it sounds more ethical when you call the control group placebo instead what they are, and expendable group of fools sacrificed for numerical convenience

[-] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago

I suppose in most clinical trials you would want to be in the placebo group, no?

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