Can we talk about how SLOW the FDA is

Dr.LipidDallas said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

lucas_SP_BR said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Pushing back on lucas_SP_BR here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.

lucas_SP_BR said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.