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It's concerning that such a low sample was published in Nature. One can imagine a similarly underpowered study showing that a direct injection of HIV does not c
by stevenae 11y ago
It's concerning that such a low sample was published in Nature. One can imagine a similarly underpowered study showing that a direct injection of HIV does not cause seroconversion, because the two or three samples happened to have CCR5-D32.
- maxerickson 11y agoWhy is it concerning? They don't make any strong conclusions and say Although the extraordinary high serum concentrations reached should compensate for this, physiological characteristics of the individual may have led to THCA-A not being incorporated into hair to a measurable extent. in the section titled Limitations of the study.
- detaro 11y agoAdmittedly the sample is extremely small, but your example doesn't match what they discuss. The claim "X does not cause Y (under any circumstances)" takes a lot more samples to be convincing than "X is not a reliable indicator of Y because it has false-positives", where a few examples of such false-positives already support their existence very well.