use of placebo

• is this a strength or weakness?

  weakness
• what is a fundamental research ethic?

  no patient should be given treatment know to be inferior
• what should researchers do if effective treatment exists?

  should be used as controlled condition when new treatments being tested
• what dissatisfies this duty?

  subbing placebo for effective reatment
• why does subbing a placebo dissatisfy this duty?

  exposes indiv to inferior treatment
• why is this a weakness?

  use of placebo in testing effectiveness raise ethical issues