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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation
CRSP 56.68-2.4%Dec 12 9:30 AM EST
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To: Biomaven who wrote (5243)12/26/2001 5:48:52 PM
From: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL  Read Replies (1) of 52153
 
Peter,

You never fail to amaze me with the "stuff" you come up with.

The responses to the study are a "hoot".

Here are two of my favorite for anyone who does not care to wade through them:

1 - A second, cross-over trial can be performed in which the control group becomes the experimental group and is prayed for. Should the results of the second trial demonstrate that the new experimental group have retrospectively improved outcomes then that really would be a breakthrough in the study of the existence of the non-material world. Thus God would have been shown to exist and one could return to a comforting Universe where a paternal, loving anthropomorphic being gives us protection from reality. And fairies would take up residence at the bottom of my garden.

2 - a) There was actually divine intervention. In such a case, it seems to me more plausible (it is more parsimonious) to suppose that, instead of deciding the length of stay and fever duration of each patient, He did something simpler for Him: to decide the outcome of the coin tossing (allocating those who had longer stays in the control group). If it is the case, there was not proper randomization and Leibovici´s study doesn’t offer anything new.

As for me - if God could be proven in some experiment it would confound the nature and purpose of faith - "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

ij
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