> It almost seems like a study that the drug companies would find as favourable advertizing for their drugs. It makes me suspicious that it may have been funded

> It almost seems like a study that the drug companies would find as favourable advertizing for their drugs. It makes me suspicious that it may have been funded by drug company money. The funding is openly disclosed: > This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC-1215-20005) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K19808). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the UK National Health Service, the NIHR, or the UK Department of Health. One of the authors, John Ioannidis, is famous as a crusader for better evidence and better statistics in medicine; he's the author of the famous "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" paper about the potential for false positives for medicine. I would be willing to trust the statistical evidence, though I think you're right to be concerned about 8 weeks as too short a time period.