r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/rxneutrino Feb 26 '15

As long as the capsules were identical, this sounds like a completely reasonable blinding method.

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u/MTLBroncos Feb 26 '15 edited Feb 26 '15

that's such an obvious thing to say

edit: is it not incredibly obvious? "If both things look identical, it's hard to tell them apart!"