| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Sokol's short piece does not provide much guidance for one of the more perplexing debates in medical ethics: whether it is ever ethical to prescribe a placebo for a therapeutic purpose. (Good bibliography here.) Conventional wisdom has it that the placebo effect is lost when the patient is told that she is getting a sugar pill or other inert substance, so the efficacy of the placebo depends upon dec
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