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Patients are randomly put into two groups. One is given the new drug and one is given a placebo (something that looks like the drug but has no effect). This allows for the palcebo effect; where the patient expects the treatment to work and so feels better, even though the treatment isn’t doing anything. Clinical trials are often double-blind ao neither the doctor nor the patient know whether the drug is real or a placebo to avoid bias.