Sham

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Sham may refer to:

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English use[edit]

  • Fraud
  • Hoax
  • Placebo, any drug, surgery, or other treatment with intentional (and usually blinded) lack of efficacy
    • Sham drug as a placebo used in a single- or double-blinded control group of experiments (see treatment and control groups)
    • Sham surgery, surgery omitting the therapeutic component, performed in the single-blinded control group of experiments
  • Name of a person or group of people:
    • Sam the Sham (born 1937), stage name of U.S. rock singer Domingo “Sam” Samudio
    • Sham, nickname of Art Shamsky (born 1941), American Major League Baseball outfielder and Israel Baseball League manager
    • Sham 69, English punk band
  • Title of a work of art
    • Sham (film), a lost 1921 silent film based on a Broadway play starring Ethel Clayton
    • Sham (play), a 1920 one-act stage play by Frank G. Tompkins
  • Other uses

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