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Yo, I was going to elaborate: I don't at all think the placebo effect should be taken to mean that antidepressants aren't effective.

Posted by TFox Oct 24 '08, 11:37

Simply that both treatments have similar effectiveness ratios. I am assuming this is what Scientologists like Tommy Cruise use to say that they don't work? That is a very flawed use of the statistic.

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Yo, I was going to elaborate: I don't at all think the placebo effect should be taken to mean that antidepressants aren't effective.

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