"Our questions about constitutionality and legality were answered with statements of efficacy.
This, of course, is not a statement about efficacy of those programs – based on the 2013 data submitted to the rankings team, Y Combinator would still have topped the list if they had not transitioned models.
In our survey, the most common reasons for not supported claims were false statements and exaggeration of efficacy.
Likewise, 9 summaries also mentioned the following type of erroneous statement: "The efficacy of stimulant agents confirms that the neurotransmitter abnormalities seen in ADHD are primarily catecholaminergic in origin".
Third, we agree with the statement that the efficacy of CI of β-lactams should be investigated in a population suffering from infections caused by less susceptible strains with elevated MICs (which we also pointed out in the conclusion to our article [ 1]).
This sample size is expected to be recruited within a reasonable period of time and allows a confirmatory statement on the efficacy of the chosen treatment concept in addition to the information gathered on safety and feasibility.
Press release statements matched 93 of the 687 statements (14%), including 16% (30/191) of efficacy and 15% (22/150) of safety statements.
This would be analogous to attempting a summary statement on the efficacy of 'drugs' for chronic low back pain, an approach that ignores the different classes and doses of drugs used in the treatment of low back pain.
A recent consensus statement on the efficacy of protein supplementation in military personnel recommended 1.5 to 2.0 gm●kg−1●day−1 for service members involved in substantially increased metabolic demand and 1.2 to 1.5 gm●kg−1●day−1 for older service members [ 103].
Furthermore, the best approach to counseling may differ depending on the individual patient and their readiness to change, rendering any statement about relative efficacy of different counseling types moot.
In Quinean terms, in an uncontrolled study, the observation statements (about the patient's condition) and the theoretical statement (about the efficacy of the treatment) may be linked too tenuously along the radii of the web; in the extreme case, the apparent linkage may be purely by chance.
