Vampire, I want you to understand that I'm being completely serious when I say this, and it isn't just a derogatory putdown: Shut up about things you don't understand. This is full blown "crystal healing is quantum vibrations" level of completely misunderstanding science. The placebo effect does not involve any information and isn't even comparable as a null hypothesis - the equivalent is that the effect comes from other medications than the one being tested, which is controlled for as rigorously as spoopy ghost idiots are expected to control for sensory leakage.
Plus, even if you had any idea what you were talking about with the placebo effect - that's fucking controlled for! That's the whole point! That's why you have to fucking do a placebo group and double blinds and shit! This is all basic things you'd understand if your spookum had any relation to real sciences.
The null hypothesis of drug trials isn't that they're recieving information from material sources.
Yes it is, the null hypothesis is the placebo hypothesis.
Vampire, I want you to understand that I'm being completely serious when I say this, and it isn't just a derogatory putdown: Shut up about things you don't understand. This is full blown "crystal healing is quantum vibrations" level of completely misunderstanding science. The placebo effect does not involve any information and isn't even comparable as a null hypothesis - the equivalent is that the effect comes from other medications than the one being tested, which is controlled for as rigorously as spoopy ghost idiots are expected to control for sensory leakage.
Plus, even if you had any idea what you were talking about with the placebo effect - that's fucking controlled for! That's the whole point! That's why you have to fucking do a placebo group and double blinds and shit! This is all basic things you'd understand if your spookum had any relation to real sciences.
spoopy ghost idiots*
*LATEST FAD