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"textContent": "Drug trials generally involve comparing a treatment with a nonactive, placebo version, an approach called \"blinding\" because patients must be \"blind\" as to which they've received for the trial to work. Canadian researchers say this is a huge issue for studies of psychedelic therapies because it's fairly obvious to patients whether they've been given a psychedelic or a placebo.",
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