file.newsgroup.med.58848 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Mark Feblowitz)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Steve Pope) writes:
It's worse than that -- there *is* no such thing as
a double-blind study on the effects of MSG, by
virtue of the fact that MSG changes the taste of food in
a characteristic way that is detectable by the subject and
that cannot be duplicated by a placebo.
Common! You can easily disguise to flavor of MSG by putting it in a
capsule. Then, the study becomes a double blind of MSG capsules
against control capsules (containing exactly the same contents minus
the MSG).
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