Monthly Archives: November 2002

preserve our placebinēs!

Posted on Monday, 2002 November 04 by Anton

Joshua Burton (if memory serves) asks: By the way, has anyone seriously looked into how the thoughtless overuse of placebos in double-blind research studies dilutes their genuine value in therapeutic contexts? And shouldn’t the plural of placebo be placebimus?

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the return

Posted on Sunday, 2002 November 03 by Anton

I’m back from two weeks of visiting Dad in Carolina. Hope to have a photograph or two shortly. Oops, my mailbox quota was filled up Tuesday morning, so if you’ve sent me something since then, please repeat it.

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