#1526: Placebo Blocker explain

[Hairbun is standing in front of Cueball who does all the talking. Below them is a footnote.]

Cueball: Some researchers* are starting to figure out the mechanism behind the placebo effect.

Cueball: We’ve used their work to create a new drug: A placebo effect blocker.

Footnote: * Hall et al, DOI: 10.1016/J.MOLMED.2015.02.009

[Zoom in on Cueball who now holds his arms out.]

Cueball: Now we just need to run a trial! We’ll get two groups, give them both placebos, then give one the real placebo blocker, and the other a…

Cueball: …wait.

[Hairbun holds her chin, while Cueball just stand there for a beat panel.]

[Hairbun looks again at Cueball who begins to take the lid off of a medicine bottle.]

Hairbun: …My head hurts.

Cueball: Mine too.

Cueball: Here, want a sugar pill?