Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 27

Reflections on the term “placebo”

Tom Jefferson

Carl Heneghan

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

Jul 20, 2023

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This is the latest in a series of posts telling the story of the discovery of unseen trials on the anti-influenza drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, published in Trust the Evidence and cross-posted in Maryanne Demasi reports. This post contains further reflections on the glib word “placebo”, frequently used in biomedical literature without further examination o…

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

Maryanne Demasi PhD is an investigative journalist who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she was a TV presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).