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One, from 2016, studied 48 autistic children in the US and found improvements in verbal communication compared with a placebo.

“The placebo effect can also be very powerful, especially for treatments that require significant effort and cost.”

While the drugs don’t work for all people with major depression, analyses of multiple studies have consistently found them to be significantly better than placebos at alleviating illness symptoms.

With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of government health policy.

Since taking office he has cut thousands of jobs in the health department and made plans to introduce placebo trials for all new vaccines.