werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (05/23/85)
> Just EXACTLY what is in those "placebos", anyway? Are they 100.00000% pure? > Are all placebos used in all experiments always the same? The content of placebos varies from study to study. If pills, it is usually sugar, starch, gelatin, and coloring, i.e., looks just like a real pill without the active ingredient. > If 5-in-60 is much higher than would be expected, than what *is* > the explaination? Is the small sample size sufficient to account for this? In this case, yes, all cancers were common cancers, and all five were different. In other words, it was random chance and a small sample. > Perhaps we could take up a collection and ship poor Craig a watermelon > before he posts any more of this nonsense. No need, I've too much Pathology and Endocrinology to learn to continue to type in these reductio ad adsurdum articles. However, if someone would identify the source of the quote in my signature, I would feel obligated to change it. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!