From: mdf0@shemesh.GTE.com (Mark Feblowitz)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
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In-reply-to: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Apr 93 21:03:56 GMT

In article <1qhu7s$d3u@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (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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