If the former, then God could not be said to have knowledge of humans, and so divine providence would not be efficacious.
CONCLUSION: Among patients in the Veterans Affairs health care system who are clinically appropriate candidates for CEA, those who did not receive the operation were less likely to have symptomatic disease or high-grade carotid artery stenosis, but were more likely to report high aversion to surgery and to have a provider who believed CEA would not be efficacious.
If you pick a broad audience, there will be too much competition for you, and most likely, you would not be efficacious.
Consequently, it would not be surprising if medications that are efficacious in DPN and PHN might fail in some of the patients with radicular pain.
Similarly, it would not be anticipated that a B-cell-depleting agent such as rituximab would be efficacious.
It wouldn't be fun, would it?
However, while it may be ethical to nail that $20 to the mast, it may not be efficacious.
To avoid that, a nonphysical, efficacious self would not be sufficient: one would also have to countenance states of the self that did not have brain-event causes.
Lower estimates for clinically diagnosed cases are possibly due to inclusion of misdiagnosed non-influenza cases and a proportion of cases that would not be prevented even with a totally efficacious vaccine [ 22].
Handwashing has been efficacious in preventing influenza [ 16, 17] and SARS [ 9] and the vast majority of the respondents (94%) believed that it would be efficacious in preventing human-to-human avian influenza.
Although this Phase IIb HIV vaccine trial with people at high risk of HIV infection did not include India, the international multi-site trial was terminated early when it was determined that the experimental vaccine would not prove to be efficacious.
