What's funny is that the paper has the statistics. The original point is sort of valid in that narrowly speaking, there's probably been other cancer trials with

What's funny is that the paper has the statistics. The original point is sort of valid in that narrowly speaking, there's probably been other cancer trials with similar response rates. Sticking with that specific argument then yeah that claim is probably exaggerated for clicks. But that's a claim about this study compared to other studies. Doesn't have anything to do with the actual effectiveness of the drug or the statistics of the study! I don't think it's just experience and wisdom - it's also the math lol this is plenty enough to get a strong insight into causality. Colorectal cancer doesn't exactly tend to go into spontaneous remission that often...