Why would anyone volunteer for something with 100% chance of a hole in the head, and a 50% or thereabout chance of NO BENEFIT whatsoever?

Why does science think this is acceptable?

Why do they think already sick people should be subjected to this kind of lottery?

And this is given that the potential treatments themselves are also unproven.

If you did this to prisoners it would be considered barbaric.
We are already prisoners of an uninvited disease.

The logic behind the concept of sham surgery is flawed, ethically and scientifically. There are other ways of observing outcomes than this.

STOP SHAM SURGERY. SCIENTISTS CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.