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Science 7 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5416, p. 913
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5416.913a
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This Week's Letters

A reader objects to the apparent method of killing infected pigs in Malaysia. Considerable discussion is sparked by a News article about the role of the placebo effect in testing drugs for the treatment of depression. One reader comments that "Clearly, traditional views of drug action need to be revised." Another says, "[Antidepressant treatments] are better...than placebos in reducing the symptoms of depression." The dialog about physician-scientists continues. And cave art from France and Africa is compared.

Letters in This Issue

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[Letter] Inhumane Death?
Amnon Kestel; News Editors.
[Letter] Pills or Placebos?
James Trussell; Alan E. Kazdin; Seymour M. Antelman, Joseph Levine, Samuel Gershon, Anthony R. Caggiula; Jefferson M. Fish; Myrna M. Weissman; L. D. Hankoff.
[Letter] The Physician-Scientist Template
Don C. Rockey
[Letter] The "Proboscidian Concept"
Daniel Lachaise
[Letter] Corrections and Clarifications


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