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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by linuxftw on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:33PM (#36777212)
Nothing. Pfizer did this, albeit wasn't 50% of the enrollment.

You can see that here: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizer-phase-3-clinical-trial-f...

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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by lesuorac on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:00PM (#36779019)
No Pfizer did not do that.

Pfizer had a trial with 21823 people in the Expirement group and 21823 people in the Placebo group. In the results they excluded data for 1790 from the Expirement group and 1585 Placebo group. However, _crucially_ Pfizer never claimed there were only 100 people in the study after starting with 200; you know pfizer excluded 3375 people because _Pfizer told you_.

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