In RCTs, half of the participants are randomly assigned to receive the experimental shot and the other half a dummy, or placebo; ethicists say that's OK if it's unclear whether the vaccine will help, do nothing, or cause harm.
Maybe that will help the team; nothing else has.
Likewise, if Americans believe that Congress cannot be counted upon to do anything that will help the economy, nothing that Congress does — no matter how well designed and well executed — will succeed in helping the economy.
The war against euphemism and cliché matters not because we can guarantee that eliminating them will help us speak nothing but the truth but, rather, because eliminating them from our language is an act of courage that helps us get just a little closer to the truth.
It will help you like nothing ever has.
And then she reminds me, just before we hang up, that she told the doctor her wishes: If it's "bad," and there is not treatment that will help, she wants nothing to be done.
And nothing will help City Opera more.
"Some days are so sad, nothing will help," he says.
He has known happiness once, lost it, and now nothing will help".
But it would be deplorable to recall the past with the intention only of envisaging a catastrophe that the prophets of gloom will help bring back, whereas nothing in the facts authorizes considering it as a probability".
