The Dismal Success of Anti-Cancer Treatments
By Andreas Moritz
A placebo is a term that describes the administration of a sugar pill or dummy procedure in order to test whether a drug or procedure is more effective than the power of belief. In an article in the Guardian (Thursday, June 20, 2002), Jerome Burne reported that “new research suggests that placebos work surprisingly well, in fact, rather better than some conventional drugs.”
A placebo (which literally means, “I shall please”) is included as an indispensable element of […]



