Posted by linkadge on September 15, 2007, at 8:27:56
In reply to Re: placebo vs. antidepressant, posted by jhj on September 15, 2007, at 2:17:03
>You seem to have some deep rooted problems >against pharma companies working in the field of >antidepressants.
Nothing of the sort. I am just posing possabilities that some researchers have sugested.
>It is a challenge to those posters' intelligence >who say they have benefited from antidepressants >to say that they all have improved because of >faith in treatment and not due to antidepressant >effect of meds.
That is incorrect too. The placebo effect has been studied intensivly. It is not a product of unintellegence.
>When 7 out of 10 people come and say that they >have improved after taking antidepressants i >think it is better to believe them rather then >getting obsessed about "placebo arm".
I disagree. If 7 out of 10 people had correspondingly responded to a placebo in the same study, then the presence of the placebo arm is highly meaninful, and indispensable.
I can only agree with the line of logic "as long as the patient is happy thats all that matters" so much.
Linkadge
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