Nobody, in their right mind who critically thinks about medicine would choose a term like placebo-blind over the more accurate placebo-masked to describe common mechanisms the process.
A person who cares about epistomology can take a book like The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine by Jeremy H. Howick which explains why placebo-blind is misleading. The term makes claims about perception when the process that’s used has nothing to do with measuring the perception of patients and many patient do perceive differences between placebo and verum due to side effects of the drug.
The marketing department of Big Pharma that prefers the misleading term placebo-blind seems to win out over people who care about epistomology.
Nobody, in their right mind who critically thinks about medicine would choose a term like placebo-blind over the more accurate placebo-masked to describe common mechanisms the process.
A person who cares about epistomology can take a book like The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine by Jeremy H. Howick which explains why placebo-blind is misleading. The term makes claims about perception when the process that’s used has nothing to do with measuring the perception of patients and many patient do perceive differences between placebo and verum due to side effects of the drug.
The marketing department of Big Pharma that prefers the misleading term placebo-blind seems to win out over people who care about epistomology.