Meanwhile in the back room I'm sure they were eye rolling. "Great another fucking Theseus guy."

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This sounds great until you understand we don’t fully understand how Tylenol works. The fact that is passes a stage 3 trial, in this hypothetical, is sufficient reason to take it so you don’t die of cancer. It’s not “hey Claude says inject bleach to kill cancer.”

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"design X that passes a stage 3 trial" is just nonsensical Stage 3 trials exist to find out if something passes them, because there is no other way to do it. They don't take multiple years because we *want* them to.

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irrespective of the rest of it there has got to be a less convoluted way to express this dilemma

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It's just so ignorant of medicine. We honestly don't know the full mechanism of action for acetaminophen and we only recently learned the mechanism of action for metformin.

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