Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern medical science

Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern medical science; thousands of clinical trials invalidated

Thursday, October 28, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing pharmaceuticals to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific. And why? Because the placebos used in the studies weren't really placebos at all, rendering the studies scientifically invalid.

This is the conclusion from researchers at the University of California who published their findings in the October issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. They reviewed 167 placebo-controlled trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals in 2008 and 2009 and found that 92 percent of those trials never even described the ingredients of their placebo pills.

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My favorite example of placebo fraud is how the studies on MSG have used Aspartame as the placebo, thus enabling the false safety claim that consumption of MSG results in no more adverse reactions than does a placebo. Like MSG, the aspartic acid in the Aspartame "placebo" is a dangerous excitotoxin.