Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 27

Reflections on the term “placebo”

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…