canadian trials
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 5:43 am
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/3may10 ... for-ms.dtl
this is dated may 3.
oh good another bad replication. We have 5 or 6 already but in the last few days I have still read 'there is no replication' a lot. There is, and buffalo was the worst, but ignoring it is not on.
I find it troubling that science is so flakey. It is totally feasible that someone from big science in North america will return 40% and that will be the end of that, just because the imaging is bad. Or not bad, just standard. And because they are from na they'll get listened to..
this is dated may 3.
“A lot of people are anxious to have a test done and surgery without having the validation done first,” says Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, the medical director of UBC’s MS clinic. “Our feeling is that the validation of Zamboni’s original findings needs to be done first before people run off to have surgery.”
oh good another bad replication. We have 5 or 6 already but in the last few days I have still read 'there is no replication' a lot. There is, and buffalo was the worst, but ignoring it is not on.
I find it troubling that science is so flakey. It is totally feasible that someone from big science in North america will return 40% and that will be the end of that, just because the imaging is bad. Or not bad, just standard. And because they are from na they'll get listened to..