38 cancer survivors were handed pills clearly labelled as placebos, and told plainly they contained nothing active.
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Claims 111@DeSciClaims38 cancer survivors were handed pills clearly labelled as placebos, and told plainly they contained nothing active. But over the next three weeks they reported 29% less fatigue than when they started. This paper went through Claims. The record includes 9 adjudicated claims, each tied to supporting evidence. Fatigue was scored by the survivors themselves, on two validated questionnaires. Every participant met the same clinician and heard the same 4-point explanation of how placebos can work. Only then did the clinician open the envelope that assigned them to a group. Nobody was misled. The pills held microcrystalline cellulose and nothing active, and participants were told so on the screening call, in the orientation, in writing, and again when the pills were prescribed. The trial ran at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard's placebo studies program @Harvard_PiPS among the authors. One site, 21 days, 74 people, and no reported side effects. The authors write that while open-label placebo "may be a beneficial treatment" for this fatigue, "replication studies are needed". #MedTwitter Hoenemeyer et al. (2018), Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20993-y
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SN111, Claims (α token Ё), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.003932 τ (≈ $0.84), against 5,408 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 37.01% APR (simple) and 44.78% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000000 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #5,615,562.
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