sugar pill

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Neither the patient nor the clinician working with them knows whether the treatment is “real,” since a clinician aware that they’re handing out a sugar pill might unwittingly treat participants differently.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

The placebo may be an injectable saline solution, or water, or a sugar pill.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

The trial shows that, over an 18-month period, patients receiving the drug declined at a slower rate than those receiving a placebo, which, in this case, was a dummy infusion rather than a sugar pill.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023

Test at 5% to see if the population mean for the real drug had a significantly greater impact on the endorphins than the population mean with the sugar pill.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

HAHNEMANN, Doctor, of Leipsig, discovered the sugar pill and called it homeopathy.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie