Anecdotes may lead to important discoveries
Which is why I am asking what the PH.D. (or vincent) is DOING about
testing the single case study in an RCT
Best
Diana
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On 10/10/2011 11:17, "Allan Reese (Cefas)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>For the record, IMO this is nonsense and an abuse of allstat, because:
>1) it is anecdotal and refers to one person
>2) it mentions a sign (rosacea) not a diagnosis or cause
>3) it claims a "cure" in three days for a condition experienced over
>many years
>4) it appears to puff a single drug with no mention of rate or method of
>application - presumably the patient did not follow the instructions
>provided.
>
>Don't understand why Vincent has pasted text from a web page, creating
>confusion that the patient is apparently one of Vincent's friends.
>
>Anecdotal accounts are interesting and should be accumulated. James Le
>Fanu writes a GP column in the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) and
>regularly features mystery conditions and random cures.
>
>Allan
>
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>Subject: Home-made clinical trials lead to a cure for widespread skin
>complaints
>
>One of my friends (referred to as the patient) holds a Ph.D. degree in
>statistics and has been affected with a common skin condition for more
>than 20 years, known as rosacea
>(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001882/). Here we report
>how he came with a solution to fully eliminate the problem. Physicians
>traditionally agree that there is no cure for rosacea.
>This study involves only one patient. But typically, clinical trials
>involve a very small number of patients, and data related to clinical
>trials is known as "small data", as opposed to "big data". It makes
>statistical inference much more complicated. On the plus side, the
>patient has tested and tried many solutions over a period of 20 years,
>while exhibiting very traditional symptoms getting slightly worse over
>time but almost under control, when using traditional medecines.
>This is not a story about how the pharmaceutical industry is producing
>useless medications. The patient was actually cured in three days with a
>drug manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceutica, a drug typically used for
>vaginal infections. However, it is a story about how the pharmaceutical
>industry, indirectly, forces you to buy expensive drugs all your life
>($200/year) when they have a 3-day solution (one-time $20 expense) to
>eliminate the problem. In this, it is possible that the pharmaceutical
>industry was not able to make a link between rosacea (impacting both men
>and women) and fungal infections mostly impacting women.
>Read full story at
>http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/home-made-clinical-trials-l
>ead-to-a-cure-for-widespread-skin
>(short URL is http://bit.ly/qCZTYM)
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