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Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : the placebo effect deserves serious therapeutic study

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सही उत्तर the placebo effect deserves serious therapeutic study है।

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It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes

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placebo responses are purely imaginary
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clinical trials are fundamentally unreliable
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modern drugs are always harmful to patients
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the placebo effect deserves serious therapeutic study

Correct Answer: the placebo effect deserves serious therapeutic study

The author explicitly argues the placebo effect should not be dismissed as a nuisance but studied as a therapeutic tool in its own right. The passage rejects the idea that placebo responses are mere imagination, and it never claims trials are unreliable or drugs always harmful.

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