[watchin]

Here, I'll help you out a little:

... A new analysis has found that in the majority of trials conducted by drug companies in recent decades, sugar pills have done as well as -- or better than -- antidepressants.

... The makers of Prozac had to run five trials to obtain two that were positive, and the makers of Paxil and Zoloft had to run even more.

Do statements like these make conservatives look bad, too? Even if we are quoting the article? Are drug makers that need to run multiple trials in order to get the desired results aware of the implications of their efforts, or not?

[liberallarry]

In all these trials - whether cooked or not - some people benefit and some people don't. I was struck by Amore's earlier comments about the value of anectodal (personal) experience. One has to wonder whether statistics capture the essence of it all - or whether they miss crucial individual distinctions.