I love all the fuss that gets made about homeopathic medicine being placebos (or not). I mean, that's great isn't it?
I worked (briefly) for a medical testing company that was part of large multinational for which I had to sign a 'nae talking outta school' thing. So I won't mention who. Because I'm, honest that way.
But anyway I was in a meeting one day of top clinicians and they were discussing how this drug they were testing which had reached stage 3 (human) trials and failed had to be got through somehow because it was such a huge contract. The meeting basically was 'ok, how can we massage these figures?' Back then, they required a 30% 'pass' rate to get a license. Or in other words, 70% of which had no effect and of the 30%, a proportion was accepted as a placebo effect.
It was that meeting that entirely changed my view on all things medicine. Although I am still a mix and match person. Best of all worlds seems the sensible approach.
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I worked (briefly) for a medical testing company that was part of large multinational for which I had to sign a 'nae talking outta school' thing. So I won't mention who. Because I'm, honest that way.
But anyway I was in a meeting one day of top clinicians and they were discussing how this drug they were testing which had reached stage 3 (human) trials and failed had to be got through somehow because it was such a huge contract. The meeting basically was 'ok, how can we massage these figures?' Back then, they required a 30% 'pass' rate to get a license. Or in other words, 70% of which had no effect and of the 30%, a proportion was accepted as a placebo effect.
It was that meeting that entirely changed my view on all things medicine. Although I am still a mix and match person. Best of all worlds seems the sensible approach.
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