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I think if we take off our pedant caps we can easily understand that the nature of scientific research on living people is rife with unique restrictions and cir
by standardUser 1y ago
I think if we take off our pedant caps we can easily understand that the nature of scientific research on living people is rife with unique restrictions and circumstances. And, more mundanely, that when a medication is proven through widespread use over decades in one population, the standards to study the impact on other, very similar populations does not always require the most onerous approach.
- _heimdall 1y agoI'm not sure how this would fall under a pedantry label. If we are okay assuming that a medication used widely for other age groups is safe for infants, why bother with an incomplete study that was never designed to produce statistically significant results? The study is only useful if it can show safety and efficacy of the dosage levels for the test population. I'm not trying to argue that the study was even necessary if the safety and efficacy can be implied, only that if the study is to be done it should at least be setup with a chance of proving the needed results.