Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'
by ekianjo on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:24AM
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That's pretty much how drug development is done, especially at scale. You have robots running tests on hundreds/thousands of molecules in mini-tubes to check if anything has any kind of effect.
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Re:Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'
by fighterpilot on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:33AM
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Isn't there a huge difference between in vivo and in vitro, though? If it's in vitro, you can actually physically check that it's working, and then rerun it to confirm. If it's in vivo and you're doing an RCT it's much more prone to statistical noise and the other issues, which is why it's bad to try things out randomly and see what sticks. At a test power of 0.05, one in twenty studies will stick due to chance.