Where would one find a suitable control group willing to be wait-listed or participate in a mock treatment for years on end?

But so was a mock treatment, in which scientists were trained to do the identical hand placements without concentrating on healing the patient.

Likewise, the word send up, which once meant the mocking treatment of homosexuals by the world at large, now designates any egregious satire.

On average, 33% of patients receiving a placebo report they feel better after receiving a mock treatment - this is known as the placebo effect.

In profiling experiments, protein or RNA identified are analyzed in reference to mock treatment for global molecular drug signature assessment.

It hadn't actually been Guy Sterne's fault that he'd barged in and found her naked in his bedroom last night, even if his mocking treatment of the incident had been grossly insulting.

Likewise, adults have used live-action role playing as an educational or practice exercise for centuries, with mock combats being an important part of military training, and mock treatments and trials used to teach doctors and lawyers.

In the two other scenes, the material objected to - the "pornography" of the scene in which Sister Stone tells why, anatomically, she could only be a virgin, and the mocking treatment of a drunken Tartar general - came directly from the classic text.

Some of the theatrics included Mr. Trump yelling about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate with the women of “The View,” and the mocking treatment his hair got from comedian Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

"Edward III" was published without attribution in 1596 and 1599, but its mocking treatment of the Scots caused it to be banned even before Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 led James VI of Scotland to be crowned James I of England.

However, wearing particular Mathurin Jacques Brisson, by his inaccurate French translation of Priestley in "History" and contained the discrepancy between the mocking treatment Symmers in the English original and its milder presentation in French Histoire de l'Electricité to observe the theory Symmers.