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Why maintaining clinical trial blinding creates emotional conflict

My clinical trial participants keep asking me if they are getting the real drug and I have started giving hints because I feel guilty about the placebo group.

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You feel so bad for the placebo patients that you've started hinting who's getting the real drug.

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