So what would you make of the following comment:
"Equipoise is an irrelevance. Patients are entered onto the trial
because the trialists believe that the experimental treatment is better.
The control group treatment should be as good as that available outside
the trial. Experimentation continues until either the trialists are
convinced they are wrong (equipoise is reached) or they convince Society
they are right." Stephen Senn, as quoted at
http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/placebo-confusion.
Steve Simon, [log in to unmask], Standard Disclaimer.
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