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From the article: "Star performers during the placebo session fell to the bottom of the pack when they had taken the drugs."
That directly refutes your assertion they were doing a novel task for the first time.
edit: now after reading about rand_xoshiro i'm curious to try it out
quite artistic
edit - worked with zMUD anyways
If in the case of medicines, instead of having carte-blanche to milk obscene profits for a long time, corpos were just limited to making decent money for a short while....that would probably work out in humanity's interest. Part of the reason medicine is so expensive in the West IMO, is the expense that's been mandated by the insane regulatory capture in the pharma industry.