Assertion: placebo | /r/HasAspect | positive effect
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: inexplicably
type: MANNER
value: in the clinical trials
type: LOCATION
value: on parkinson’s disease
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: I mentioned earlier that placebo can have a positive effect on Parkinson’s disease –
text: But studies in the past have shown that, inexplicably, placebos can have positive effects.
text: In many cases, the new drugs being tested, no matter how potent they are, perform only slightly better than the placebo, and both the drug and the placebo appear in the clinical trials to have a very positive effect.