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When a press release says "all 12 patients went into full remission", you can be sure that the PR authors truly want you to believe that the drug had the effect
by dekhn 3y ago
When a press release says "all 12 patients went into full remission", you can be sure that the PR authors truly want you to believe that the drug had the effect of curing all the patients.
- vikramkr 3y agoThe press release is obviously overselling (also remission != cure), but that's separate from the statistics of the study and it's design and the significance of the results. It's almost always a safe bet to just ignore press releases entirely and jump straight to the paper.