On: Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward...

[analog31]

When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me.

[phony-account → analog31]

> When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me

Because people dying of covid are just “imagining it”?

[analog31 → phony-account]

I hope you don't think that covid is imaginary.

The article explains well enough that "drug free" doesn't mean inactive. So it's more a matter of what a "drug" consists of.

[hedora → analog31]

In this context, “drug-free” should probably be read as “they got permission to skip clinical trials, drug manufacturing oversight, Drug Facts labeling laws, and so on”.

[analog31 → hedora]

Ah, then maybe "placebo" wasn't such a bad guess after all.