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True or false: it is unethical to give placebos to a control group.

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False. In order to create a control group one must understand the baseline of what is happening. Therefore placebos are given in order to establish this control group. These control groups allow understanding of what an the actual experimental drug, in the case of clinical trials, can do.
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