Please save your “move along” condescension for the Last Jedi forum– I don’t appreciate it and I doubt you would either. This researcher and others like him are actively attempting to justify prescribing placebos, or to create ammunition for alternative medicine claims… It could be that he genuinely wants to get to the bottom of why control arms can show positive results, but you have to look at the history of a researcher’s work and who they choose to collaborate with for clues about their motives. Believe it or not, sometimes people don’t follow the facts, but instead frame the facts to fit their hypothesis. Many times studies have been conducted with rigor, but results are conveniently spun to confirm a pre-existing narrative. I’d like to think that all science is done with a clear and open mind, but it’s not that simple; people have biases and might not even know it. Studies confirm: self deception is a hell of a drug.
