Back when there were no good treatments for AIDS and it was regarded as pretty much a death sentence, patients would in fact conspire to see who was getting the drug or placebo, and drop out if they had the placebo and try to sign up for a study with the drug. This of course misses the point of an RCT, but the point is that desperate people aren’t in it for the science.
Back when there were no good treatments for AIDS and it was regarded as pretty much a death sentence, patients would in fact conspire to see who was getting the drug or placebo, and drop out if they had the placebo and try to sign up for a study with the drug. This of course misses the point of an RCT, but the point is that desperate people aren’t in it for the science.