1.   And because many clinical trials compare an active drug with a placebo, the patients often receive only a dummy pill.

2.   And many men who were taking a placebo, or dummy pill, also reported the sexual dysfunction.

3.   A fourth group received a placebo, or dummy pill.

4.   A potential flaw in the Dutch study is that the scientists did not randomly assign people to take active drugs or dummy pills for comparison purposes.

5.   A large percentage of drug trials seeking to put new psychiatric medicines on the market use dummy pills and take patients off their medicines.

6.   Critics, who had called the use of the placebo unethical, pronounced themselves vindicated because the women in the experiments will now get AZT instead of dummy pills.

7.   From that, he concluded that about a third of patients get better simply from taking a dummy pill.

8.   Half of the women received the drug, while half got a dummy pill.

9.   Half the patients received a dummy pill, or placebo.

10.   Half get AZT, half get dummy pills.