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Empirical evidence against placebo controls
- Correspondence to Sadhvi Batra, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, 1720 12th St. S, Apt D Birmingham, AL 35205, USA; sadhvi010{at}gmail.com
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Empirical evidence against placebo controls
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- Received September 29, 2016
- Revised June 4, 2017
- Accepted July 19, 2017
- First published August 9, 2017.
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September 28, 2017
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