Who is blind in psychedelic research? Letter to the editor regarding: blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials
- 17 August 2021
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
- Vol. 14 (10), 1317-1319
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17512433.2021.1951473
Abstract
Dear Editors,Unblinding is an important confounding in pharmacological research potentially affecting rigour and objectivity of the scientific data underlying evidence-based medicine. Therefore I w...Keywords
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