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: '''Placebos''' are known to have a positive effect on many illnesses. To ensure that a new potential [[medicine]] is not just a [[placebo]] some of the patients are given a [[placebo]] so the results can be compared with the potential [[medicine]]. If the results of the [[placebo]] and the potential [[medicine]] are the same, then the potential [[medicine]] had no effect.

: When administering [[placebo]] that patient is unaware whether they are being given the real potential [[medicine]] or not. This is known as a [[Blind Trial]]. Most trials of potential [[medicine]]s are [[Double Blind Trial]]s which means neither the doctor giving the potential [[medicine]] nor the patient receiving it will know if they've got the real one or not.

===References===

:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782945954/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782945954&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=100574c08fbbb64318256eb79ed61a76 ''Placebos, page 143, GCSE Biology, CGP, AQA '']

:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782945598/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782945598&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=ad276ad49df77ab4b40ab4fd0fe10165 ''Placebos, page 49, GCSE Combined Science; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA '']