Dear Mslday -

As the Reuban case has taught us, it is difficult to specify what level of scientific certainty you would wish to impose on a physician's use of medications. The whole thing about contaminating multi-center project. (Anyone know for sure why the Thalidomide study hasn't been published yet, 3 years after it completed the recovery of data from over 20 locations?) Personally, I like the idea of doing thing the old fashioned way. One guy does a study and publishes. The next tries to see if he can invalidate the results of the first, and publishes in any event.

Seriously, I am mindful of when JPL builds satellites, it checks out the computer's chips so rigorously that come launch date, they can be 4+ years behind whatever the commercial world is doing.

Mike