Significantly, an experiment (which is what this is) needs to have control groups, otherwise, it is impossible to know whether anything works anymore. In a double-blinded study, neither the subjects nor the experimenters know which subjects are in the tested or control groups. What these reporters are picking up on, is that there are saline shots. By definition there must be saline shots, otherwise one could not conduct a double-blinded randomized control experiment that is the gold standard. BUT, those who do not understand science are outraged by this, because they feel they have been ripped off somehow. If they are told that they are receiving an experimental shot, they feel that they must be able to demand that it is the test shot, not the control group shot. BUT that would defeat the purpose of double-blinding. This is the result of taking the experiment into the public before all the tests have been done.