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>First of all the control group would not
>take a placebo but would be given the most effective standard treatment.
>This is because you do not want see if a new treatment is better than
>nothing.  You want to find out whether a new treatment is better than
>the best treatment available.

This of course raises the question of what is the "most effective standard
treatment".

The ORIGINAL question was whether taking antioxidants, as opposed to NOT
taking them, helped avoid O2 toxicity.

This guides the experimental design in the direction of "no antioxidant"
vs. "antioxidant" and just about requires inducing O2 tox hits in the test
subjects.

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