Siobhan O'ConnorAn interesting new study looks at the ingredients used in placebo pills—like corn or olive oil, say—to ask whether those placebos aren't actually "inert" placebos after all because "there are no regulations on what goes into placebos, and very few studies actually report the composition of dummy pills or capsules."
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