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not just semantics - there is a crucial underlying point here
:I inserted the definition from the CDC mainly because the only reference at that point in the article was to the definition, yet the definition (which was the only mention of "placebo" on the cited page) was nowhere in the article. It was a choice of either ditch the reference or use the definition, and as there were no other references I went with the latter. Please try to be kinder in your edit comments - we are all doing our little bit to improve the article, even if it's not perfect. (Also - I'm glad to see there are now references - medical articles with no references (or with only a reference to a definition) scare me.) --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 16:58, 2 December 2008 (EST)
:I inserted the definition from the CDC mainly because the only reference at that point in the article was to the definition, yet the definition (which was the only mention of "placebo" on the cited page) was nowhere in the article. It was a choice of either ditch the reference or use the definition, and as there were no other references I went with the latter. Please try to be kinder in your edit comments - we are all doing our little bit to improve the article, even if it's not perfect. (Also - I'm glad to see there are now references - medical articles with no references (or with only a reference to a definition) scare me.) --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 16:58, 2 December 2008 (EST)
The Atlanta CDC used to be highly respectable, but during the AIDS furor, they became politicizied. Here's your reference, but I have no idea why you'd want it in the article:
*The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vaccines and Immunizations Glossary defines a '''placebo''' as "A substance or treatment that has no effect on human beings." <ref>US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines and Immunizations Glossary, entry for "placebo" [http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/about/terms/glossary.htm#p]</ref>
If it has no effect, then why would anybody be talking about the 'placebo effect'? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 17:13, 2 December 2008 (EST)
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