EditorialScientists are split over whether the benefits some microdosers experience are a placebo effect or something more. (River Cousin/The New York Times)
EditorialPlacebo pills containing microcrystalline cellulose, which cannot be absorbed by the body, at the Sydney School of Public Health in Sydney on Nov. 29, 2021. (Isabella Moore/The New York Times)
EditorialRetired family physician and trial participant Dewayne Nash, who received a placebo for 18 months before getting the experimental Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab for seven months, at his home in Santa Barbara Calif., May 26, 2021. (Daniel Dreifuss/The New York Times)
EditorialBottles of Lipitor, left, and Zocor, both popular statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, at an ACME pharmacy in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., Oct. 14, 2005. (Mike Mergen/The New York Times)
EditorialOffice for the Dead at Vespers. Placebo, with initial 'P'. The three Maries at the sepulchre; the angel in the empty sepulchre; the women tell the disciples. Marginal scenes of a death-bed, a burial service, and a tomb with figures of mourners [perhaps...
EditorialJudith Munz and her husband, Scott Petersen, who both volunteered for a coronavirus vaccine trial, at their home in Phoenix, Dec. 1, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialOffice for the Dead at Vespers. Placebo, with initial 'P'. The three Maries at the sepulchre; the angel in the empty sepulchre; the women tell the disciples. Marginal scenes of a death-bed, a burial service, and a tomb with figures of mourners [perhaps...
EditorialOffice for the Dead at Vespers. Placebo, with initial 'P'. The three Maries at the sepulchre; the angel in the empty sepulchre; the women tell the disciples. Marginal scenes of a death-bed, a burial service, and a tomb with figures of mourners [perhaps...