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NotPhil · 4315 days ago · link · · parent · post: FDA drug trials are not required to use inert placebos, nor publish the ingredients of "active placebo" pills
Is there some way other researchers can discover the ingredients of placebos other than whatever may or may not be described in a journal article? The problems with the placebos described in the post were found only because the articles describing those studies did list the ingredients in the placebos.