Typically a placebo is a sugar pill.  What we have been calling the "placebo" group for BOM is actually the current Standard of Care....much different from a sugar pill.

Don only has 8 minutes to get a lot across on Nov 16th.  If he talks about placebo being one side of his forest graph, he is, in my view, making a mistake.  What he is comparing is "standard of Care" to "standard of Care plus Apabetalone".

He needs to be as clear about this as possible.  His audience will not be as highly involved with the subject as we are.