[jerf]

I don't think anyone is proposing actually removing all humans from the loop, so I think that's an argument against a strawman.

Even if they were proposing it, there's no realistic chance of it happening.

I don't want people blindly copying "standard" scientific procedures either, where we run high-stastistical-power studies for months with double-blind scenarios then carefully peer-review it and come up with some result somewhere in 2022.

[disgruntledphd2]

So, hopefully there will be blinded researchers who analyse the data.

They'll probably use sequential stopping rules to take samples of incoming data.

If one of the treatments works much much better, then they'll almost certainly recommend that (but doctors will probably figure this out first, anyway).