Other scientists, including those at the University of Oxford who are currently preparing for trials in the epidemic region, say that with a death rate of 70% and fear and suspicion of hospitals running high in the three worst affected countries in west Africa, it is not possible to run the sort of trial that would be standard in the UK or US.
These lesser tales are just the sort of trial balloons that writers jot down in their journals and later, for good reason, put aside: a ludicrous treatment for a movie about a man who plots to assume the identity of his mistress's wealthy husband; another equally unbelievable story about a former reporter who becomes an avenging angel of death.
People who listened to the debate on the radio scored it for Nixon; but television viewers went for Kennedy, and he won the election.Gordon Brown is an excellent student of politics (the American kind in particular); and that precedent may partly explain why he has hesitated to agree to the sort of trial by television that Tricky Dick flunked.
As the design was so novel and consent was not obtained directly, the stakeholders from research networks and ethics committees suggested that even if the intervention only involved NHS staff these sort of trial designs should go through at least a proportionate review by NRES.
This sort of clinical trial design is likely to be seen as low risk by regulators and pharmaceutical companies and has the obvious attraction of providing biomarker data from treatment-naive tumours.
By and large, these were not the sort of trials that gain wide public notice or have multiple books written about them.
"He is a terrible being who comes across another character with an indescribable capacity for survival and who he will submit to the sort of trials that I never imagined myself capable of writing".
"This sort of execution without trial, it's against international humanitarian law, against human rights law, against all Islamic values to protect war prisoners," said Mohammad Farid Hamidi, a commissioner.
BT will doubtless say they didn't look at this data, which seems an odd sort of trial... that seems to me extremely wicked of BT.
