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Actually, it's quite terrifying when you remember that stopping a clinical trial early is a great way to create statistical fraud. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/08/08/st... cites an example of a drug whose clinical trial was stopped early due to obviously effective success... only to discover later on that the "obviously effective" was a statistically spurious event, and the drug did not confer…
It's only a "great way to create statistical fraud" if you assume that the statisticians, and the FDA, are either stupid or corrupt. And contrary to popular belief, they tend to be competent enough to at least cope with the sort of hair-brained schemes HN believes would fool them.[0] Stopping a trial early and it's statistical implications should, by the way, be somewhat familiar with web developers: it's commonly do…
Re: Ebola Is Now Curable
#171I was a contractor working on an IS at the FDA in the early 2000's. Shortly before the VIOXX scandal (https://www.drugwatch.com/vioxx/). The number of cheats they were specifying to go around safeguards was scary. Fortunately, they fired the company I worked for and awarded the contract to the company employing the husband of one of the FDA managers. ISYN. A relief to leave.