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by derefr 2580 days ago
Run one trial to find correlations with specific groups, then run another trial under the hypothesis that it works for that group.
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Well sure but that costs a fortune. Drug development is already extremely expensive.
That is a good idea, but it generates accusations of special pleading. Medical science is plagued with many kinds of fetish, and medical doctors are not generally obliged to actually understand science.