"Sugar pill" is a generic term for an inactive substance. It doesn't contain a meaningful amount of sugar, and similar effects are present using other substances. How would we test diabetes medicine if the only options were either medicine or sugar?
Trying to claim the placebo effect is from taking a tiny amount of sugar is silly. If sugar alone was curing things, the US would basically never get sick.
Yeah, I should have highlighted the fillers instead of the lactose, I realized my mistake shortly after posting. It's really not the point, claiming the tiny amount of sugar is the cause is ridiculous. This one experiment didn't test multiple placebos, but other's have.
Trying to claim the placebo effect is from taking a tiny amount of sugar is silly. If sugar alone was curing things, the US would basically never get sick.