[coryfklein]

> it can cause cancer. Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Liver cancer.

Do you have some idea of the likelihood here? Are we talking a 10% chance of cancer or a 0.001% chance?

The whole "it can have X side effect" is the same argument anti-vaccine people use without respect to any sort of cost benefit risk analysis.

[AlexC04]

I did a quick Google and it appeared to me that most of the adverse events were measured at rates in the 10's per 10,000 ... Though that is absolutely from a very high level.

This study was presenting at around 20% (IIRC, I was reading the outrage version of this stuff a few days ago)

It is also important to note that this is by no means the end of the drug. The people involved consider this to be a very promising study and are going to continue working on it.

It wasn't stopped early "as a failure" to be shelved and never looked at again. It was stopped early because they knew enough about the upside and didn't have to continue on the down.

The next rounds of trials will likely try to alleviate the side effects while preserving the MOA (mechanism of action)

The VOX article was a reasonable balance to the "men are selfish pigs who can't handle side effects" version of this article. http://www.vox.com/2016/11/2/13494126/male-birth-control-stu...