http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/06/29/the-twilight-of-expertise-part-9-clinical-trials-again/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:46:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/06/29/the-twilight-of-expertise-part-9-clinical-trials-again/#comment-23540 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:00:04 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/06/29/the-twilight-of-expertise-part-9-clinical-trials-again/#comment-23540 The funny thing about a double-blind clinical trial for the Shangri-La Diet: half the participants would be randomly assigned to drink sugar water, and the other half would be assigned to drink a sugar water placebo -- so everyone would be on the Shangri-La Diet!! The funny thing about a double-blind clinical trial for the Shangri-La Diet: half the participants would be randomly assigned to drink sugar water, and the other half would be assigned to drink a sugar water placebo — so everyone would be on the Shangri-La Diet!!

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