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Ethics of placebo in children
The use of placebo in children is more restricted than in adults, because children cannot consent. Placebo should not be used when it means withholding effective treatment, particularly for serious and life-threatening conditions. The use of placebo is often needed for scientific reasons, including pediatric trials. The use of placebo may be warranted in children as in adults when evidence for any particular treatment is lacking or when the placebo effect is known to be very variable (e.g., pain, hay fever). As the level of evidence in favor of an effective treatment increases, the ethical justification for the use of placebo decreases.[24]

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Makes sense , as AI work in trials gets understood we might expect current placebo methods to fade away in importance. (We do not know, what we do not know...YET)...Maybe someday soon we will get solid validated evidence of true root causes. Then WHAT?