analogous to the tendency of patient volunteers to confuse treatment in the context of RCTs with routine medical care.” Equipoise, they argue, only makes sense as a normative assumption for clinical trials if one assumes that researchers have therapeutic obligations to their research participants. Further criticisms of clinical equipoise have been leveled by Robert Veatch and by Peter Ubel and Robert Silbergleit. See also Bracketing (phenomenology) Cartesian doubt Suspension of judgment References External links Bioethics: An Anthology, pg. 429 For and against, BMJ 2000;321:756–758 The Tri-Council Policy Statement (Canada) Ethical principles Clinical trials Medical ethics