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2601:C6:D782:52B0:0:0:0:29FA: Removed irrelevant political whinging

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172.68.159.50: /* Explanation */ The word "defunding" can also mean just reducing funding by some amount (which can sometimes be a good idea), so "abolishing" is a better example of an idea that is obviously bad.

2024-10-16T13:43:03Z

‎Explanation: The word "defunding" can also mean just reducing funding by some amount (which can sometimes be a good idea), so "abolishing" is a better example of an idea that is obviously bad.

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Ex Kay Cee Dee at 21:03, 4 May 2022

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172.70.162.77: Undo revision 235618 by X. K. C. D. (talk)

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Undo revision 235618 by X. K. C. D. (talk)

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X. K. C. D. at 00:20, 4 May 2022

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	In the title text, "Standard of care" refers to the previously accepted practice which a new medicine needs to be compared against. Because the original 3-step "standard of care" in this comic didn't include clinical trials before their adoption, we didn't need to do any testing in order to decide to start using them. If we ''had'' had them as the standard of care, then we would have had to perform tests before we added a step and it would have taken longer. This assumes that the process itself is subject to the same scientific rigor as medical treatment; in practice that would be more of a political change that is still not tested.		In the title text, "Standard of care" refers to the previously accepted practice which a new medicine needs to be compared against. Because the original 3-step "standard of care" in this comic didn't include clinical trials before their adoption, we didn't need to do any testing in order to decide to start using them. If we ''had'' had them as the standard of care, then we would have had to perform tests before we added a step and it would have taken longer. This assumes that the process itself is subject to the same scientific rigor as medical treatment; in practice that would be more of a political change that is still not tested.
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−	This comic can be viewed to criticize several extreme political proposals that are obviously bad ideas to most people, such as abolishing the nuclear family, making gay marriage illegal, blocking the development of renewable energy sources and abolishing the police. People tested the latter in Seattle, and {{w\|Capitol Hill Occupied Protest#During the zone\|the test didn't go well}}.

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 Similar to more recent examples, some earlier treatments may have been gradually discovered to help a particular condition only by noticing beneficial side-effects when consumed for sustenance or for unrelated medical 'guesses'. However, they also remained without the full scientific rigour so long as it remained a 'traditional remedy' with at best an oral tradition across many disparate practitioners, and no consistent effort to formalise or test the falsifiability of any findings.
-At the time that this comic was published, the world was in the middle of the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, which made the existence of clinical trials more relevant to the public, who waited eagerly for what sounded like good ideas to get through clinical trials and available to the general public… or fail clinical trials and not do that. During this frustrating wait, many unscientific claims have been made that various drugs or non-drug treatments are cures for COVID-19, making it difficult to convince believers to get real treatments. On the other hand, many people were skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines which were made available to the public for emergency use before the clinical trials were finished, or had concerns about whether the clinical trials were rushed or otherwise flawed due how quickly they were conducted compared to the traditional speed for vaccine development and approval.
+At the time that this comic was published, the world was in the middle of the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, which made the existence of clinical trials more relevant to the public, who waited eagerly for what sounded like good ideas to get through clinical trials and available to the general public… or fail clinical trials and not do that. During this frustrating wait, many unscientific claims have been made that various drugs or non-drug treatments are cures for COVID-19, making it difficult to convince believers to get real treatments. On the other hand, many people were skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines which were made available to the public for emergency use before the clinical trials were finished, or had concerns about whether the clinical trials were rushed or otherwise flawed due to how quickly they were conducted compared to the traditional speed for vaccine development and approval.
 In the title text, "Standard of care" refers to the previously accepted practice which a new medicine needs to be compared against. Because the original 3-step "standard of care" in this comic didn't include clinical trials before their adoption, we didn't need to do any testing in order to decide to start using them. If we ''had'' had them as the standard of care, then we would have had to perform tests before we added a step and it would have taken longer. This assumes that the process itself is subject to the same scientific rigor as medical treatment; in practice that would be more of a political change that is still not tested.

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 In the title text, "Standard of care" refers to the previously accepted practice which a new medicine needs to be compared against. Because the original 3-step "standard of care" in this comic didn't include clinical trials before their adoption, we didn't need to do any testing in order to decide to start using them. If we ''had'' had them as the standard of care, then we would have had to perform tests before we added a step and it would have taken longer. This assumes that the process itself is subject to the same scientific rigor as medical treatment; in practice that would be more of a political change that is still not tested.
-This comic can be viewed to criticize several extreme political proposals that are obviously bad ideas to most people, such as abolishing the nuclear family, making gay marriage illegal, blocking the development of renewable energy sources and defunding the police. People tested the latter in Seattle, and {{w|Capitol Hill Occupied Protest#During the zone|the test didn't go well}}.
+This comic can be viewed to criticize several extreme political proposals that are obviously bad ideas to most people, such as abolishing the nuclear family, making gay marriage illegal, blocking the development of renewable energy sources and abolishing the police. People tested the latter in Seattle, and {{w|Capitol Hill Occupied Protest#During the zone|the test didn't go well}}.
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