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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MTA study was initially randomized but parents were allowed to change their initial plan without leaving the study so it was unrandomized.[/quote]

It is unethical to assign a randomized lifelong treatment plan to a child. If this is the kid of study you are looking for to prove medication does not work long term, you will never find it. But I suspect that is what you want anyway.

Additionally, please look into the Russell's Teapot analogy. [b]Being unable to disprove an assertion is not proof of said assertion[/b]. You are betting your child on a logical fallacy. Congrats.  [/quote]

Sure, but then there's no proof either way.

You ALWAYS have the option of dropping out of any study.  Thats an ethical requirement and has nothing to do with it being lifelong or children.  But accurate studies will take those people out of the pool (and will have a large enough pool that it won;t affect the study) or will assign such people a pool of their own.  They won't pretend it never happened.

The point is that you are railing against the use of medication EVER because even if parents see an improvement in the here and now and, that this improvement is illusory or won't last because of this study.  And this study is just not enough to make that point.  You are using the fallacy of looking at a smidgen of science and twisting it to fit your ideological bias.[/quote]

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