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A comment on A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows. Parent comment

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by killjoywashere on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:33PM (#18271503)
Thinking of remote possibilities and assuming your patients could be lying to you (corollary: trust but verify) is pretty standard practice in medicine.
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by sigmar on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:51PM (#18271577)
and your solution to these adversarial patients that are willing to lie is to... ask a second question?
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by killjoywashere on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:15AM (#18272766)
Whether Bayesian or Frequentist, surely you can agree the result of different tests are unlikely to have 100% concordance.
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