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[–]motionlessoracle 44 insightful - 1 fun44 insightful - 0 fun45 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I sincerely hope the owners of the study know that happened and think it's irrelevant to the study, otherwise their data is fucked for all time.

What worries me are the retrospective studies. Sometimes, researchers go back and pull data from various studies done by different groups in the past in an attempt to look at other variables. Say a researcher wants to go back to clinical trials and look at how drug <x> affects female patients of a certain age. How will they know that the data they are grabbing hasn't been altered? Poisoning the female data with data from people who were male at birth potentially endangers female people.

[–]Nona_Biba 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Poisoning the female data with data from people who were male at birth potentially endangers female people.

This makes me so angry I could vomit. #ProtectFemalePatients, make THAT go viral!