PubReading [290] - Placebo Controls- Now??? - A. Caplan

In this era of a pandemic, why do we need the placebo controls for regulatory agency or Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved clinical trials aimed at COVID-19 patients? The answer is always that we have to establish a ruler with a baseline onto which efficacy measurements can be statistically judged.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00005-021-00612-x - 2021