Sentences with phrase «rather than the placebo»

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Consult with your doctor and choose proven, science - based remedies rather than overpriced and poorly regulated placebos.

I rather have a placebo with no side effects than your best crafted chemically produced scientific cure that gives me a thousand other symptoms in the long run.

Both placebo and supplements were given once monthly — rather than daily at home — at the GPI to ensure consistent compliance.

«For example, a non-blind trial of a new drug might conclude that it is way more effective than a placebo, when in fact the drug's true effect is rather modest, simply because the researchers» expectations biased the results.»

Drug companies typically test new products against placebos rather than head - to - head against other drugs, so doctors don't get good evidence about which drug is the better choice.

In an open - label extension trial, or OLE, the volunteers from a blinded trial are invited to come back for further doses, and every volunteer gets the active drug rather than some receiving drug and some the placebo — usually at the highest dose that was safely tried in the blinded trial.

For this reason, scientists believe it best to compare any treatment against a placebo rather than a no - treatment group.

I think there's something there and I think maybe the best way to do it would be instead of looking at just a placebo, you'd almost have to go coffee versus coffee with fat to use your thing or just fat versus some form of placebo rather than just a fast, right?

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

Placebo tests suggest that it is the layoff process that induces «structural churn» rather than differential mobility of the teachers who are targeted by this process.

While many environmentalists argue that the terms «sustainable development» has been debased to focus more on sustaining development rather than ecological systems, Stott dismisses the concept as a «placebo to eco-condriacs the world over.»

Our study design diverged from the TDCRP in offering SP rather than pill placebo plus clinical management as its presumed least active treatment.

Consumers reading the subject article can't be faulted for wondering if the cure that is being suggested, for the issues that are being described as the ailment, is nothing more than a placebo, because the cause of the ailment hasn't been confirmed, only implied — rather absurdly.