8. The author’s argument in the third and fourth paragraphs would be most weakened if which one of the following were true?
(A) In most comparative clinical trials, the main purpose is to prove definitively that a treatment considered best by a consensus of relevant experts is, in fact, superior to the alternative being tested. - No. If there is consensus in the beginning and we still conduct a trial, it's unethical. The basic or the only condition for CE is that there is no consensus initially. This breaks the argument for CE.
(B) Physicians participating in comparative clinical trials rarely ask to leave the trials because early data favors one of the treatments being tested over another. - This weakens the TE and not CE. Wrong.
(C) The number of comparative clinical trials that are conducted annually is increasing rapidly, but the level of ethical oversight of these trials is decreasing. - Out of scope. There is no compromise on ethics in either. CE just removes the 50/50
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(A) In most comparative clinical trials, the main purpose is to prove definitively that a treatment considered best by a consensus of relevant experts is, in fact, superior to the alternative being tested. - No. If there is consensus in the beginning and we still conduct a trial, it's unethical. The basic or the only condition for CE is that there is no consensus initially. This breaks the argument for CE.
(B) Physicians participating in comparative clinical trials rarely ask to leave the trials because early data favors one of the treatments being tested over another. - This weakens the TE and not CE. Wrong.
(C) The number of comparative clinical trials that are conducted annually is increasing rapidly, but the level of ethical oversight of these trials is decreasing. - Out of scope. There is no compromise on ethics in either. CE just removes the 50/50
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