My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing. Lethargy in the first fortnight was …

Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

If it came with a repeat slip, the slip beats every database.

Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?

Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.

The published rule and the enforcement pattern are different documents. Only one of them affects you.