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Some context: This article was a satirical commentary on the situation in evidence-based medicine where the absence of large double-blind placebo-controlled ran
by sungam 18y ago
Some context: This article was a satirical commentary on the situation in evidence-based medicine where the absence of large double-blind placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials was equated with an absence of efficacy, for example it would be completely unethical to do a placebo controlled trial of penicillin as a treatment for infection as patients would have to die to prove that it worked.
- albertcardona 18y ago"Double-blind placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials" are a TOTAL REQUIREMENT to assess the effectiveness of incremental drugs, i.e. drugs that claim to be better than some other existing drug. In the case of the parachute, there is no such other: apply common sense. If any society has managed to enforce by law the Double-blind ... etc assay, then that society will rightly get what it deserves for its bureaucratically administered shortsightedness.