If a drug is as good as placebo, then for all practical purposes, it is useless as a therapeutic agent. The placebo effect is basically a psychological effect on patient who feels better thinking that he is taking medicine when in fact he is taking a sugar pill. FDA is unlikely to approve any medication which does not show better therapeutic effect than placebo.
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