Gary Brecka
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And let's be honest,
When we don't know what to do with some new therapy, we just downplay it and say, oh, we don't have a 10-year randomized controlled trial.
Therefore, it's bad.
No, that means you don't have a 10-year randomized controlled trial.
It's a scientific unknown.
Maybe there's other ways of learning.
Big data, for example.
big data.
We talked about parachutes.
We've never done a randomized clinical trial on parachutes.
Yeah, where's the randomized trial on parachutes?
I mean, you can see it in front of your eyes that it's saving lives, right?
I mean, who wants to be randomized to jump off a plane without a parachute?
I want to see who signs up for that control group.
I want to be in the control group.
I remember, Gary, at Johns Hopkins, and this is to the point that we need to listen to patients and realize that we can learn from patients.
There was a patient with brain cancer, a certain type of incurable glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer at Johns Hopkins.
I didn't know the patient, but this case is well known.
And the guy beat the odds and is a long-term survivor.
You really rarely see a long-term survivor.