Eli5: how do drug trials work for risky medicine so that it doesn’t kill those participating?
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Saw something concerning on the news today. I would like an explanation on how the use of a placebo as a control during human trails is not completely inhumane. Essentially these equally sick people are unknowingly getting fake medicine. Granted they would have to know they were participating in a trail and know there is a chance they would be given a placebo, but still, the administering doctor is breaking the hippocratic oath – do no harm, by purposely not giving therapeutics to a sick patient.
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