We read the placebo trial behind the fake-supplement headlines: of 90 older adults in Milan, those told outright that their pills were sugar reported less stress than those deceived into thinking the pills were real — and the percentages in the university’s announcement are nowhere in the paper

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An Italian randomised trial set an open-label placebo against a deceptive one and against a group given no intervention. Two of ten outcomes separated the groups. The physical-performance figures quoted in the university’s announcement are not in the paper, which reports no percentages at all. The post We read the placebo trial behind the fake-supplement headlines: of 90 older adults in Milan, those told outright that their pills were sugar reported less stress than those deceived into thinking the pills were real — and the percentages in the university’s announcement are nowhere in the paper appeared first on Space Daily .