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It was a multi-drug combination therapy without real control arm as far as I saw. Also the 95% confidence intervals were overlapping, and the probablity of the
by xiphias2 7y ago
It was a multi-drug combination therapy without real control arm as far as I saw. Also the 95% confidence intervals were overlapping, and the probablity of the high dosage being more lethal is not published.
- brokensegue 7y agoSo you think they were mistaken to stop the trial? Or what?
- xiphias2 7y agoNo, when we are talking about taking away human lives, even with a little bit of data it’s immoral to continue a human trial. The problem is with the binary reporting that doesn’t get into the nuances of the data that we’re getting. People are getting confused and disappointed, because it looks like there’s a new miracle cure every day. And at the end cynical people are wright when it comes to this kind of binary reporting. And then cynism can lead to bad decisions.