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To: Diogenesis

Just because they got Ebola does not give the FDA the right to make them guinea pigs.


2 posted on 11/05/2014 9:23:40 AM PST by madison10
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To: madison10
Just because they got Ebola does not give the FDA the right to make them guinea pigs.

You do not recognize the risk of not having a control group for testing a new treatment. There is a big chance that the experimental treatment does nothing and the patient recovers by their own immune response. If you do not have a control ineffective treatments get commercialized and then the damage is from the assumption that it is going to help.

How many have recovered without experimental treatment? Of those who survive almost all had no treatment other than palliative - fluids and nutrition.

You do a disservice to those who volunteer for clinical trials by calling them pigs or rodents.

12 posted on 11/05/2014 9:34:34 AM PST by corkoman
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A double blind study is the only way to determine a drug’s effectiveness.


13 posted on 11/05/2014 9:34:36 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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