sugar pill
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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
For example, in medication trials, it is well established that the color of a sugar pill makes a difference.
From Slate • May 10, 2018
This is set up as a one-tailed test with the claim in the alternative hypothesis that the medicine will produce more endorphins than 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
