Potential vaccine targets and the safety, science, trial designs, ethical considerations, and international perspectives focusing on low and middle income countries (LMIC) are discussed.
The delayed randomisation element of this trial gave doctors opportunities to discuss the scientific imperatives and the science of trials well before they discussed randomisation.
In addition, because public health spans a broad range of content areas (e.g., infectious disease, chronic disease, and environmental health) and forms of inquiry (e.g., basic science, clinical trials, health services evaluation, epidemiology, and population health assessment and surveillance), the services offered by PHO are broad in nature.
We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, Web of Science and trial registers for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) without language restriction.
By putting climate science on trial, it's been dubbed the "Scopes trial for climate change".
While there is an overwhelming case for strong science-driven trials, the ability of trials to drive basic science should not be underestimated.
Students have been taught that A's and perfect test scores are the goal, while computer science demands trial, error and failure to achieve success.
Cynicism makes an unpredictable world more predictable, Marcia Angell wrote in her book "Science on Trial" (W. W. Norton, 1996), and "offers the illusion of understanding".
The truth may lie somewhere in between, said Rennie B. Schoepflin, a professor of religious history at California State University in Los Angeles and author of "Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America".
Since the indictment was handed down late last month, the blogosphere and parts of the scientific community have been decrying the case as a witch hunt and accusing the prosecutors of putting science on trial.
