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in reply to @adorablesergal's post:
Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps
the prior trial in mice had to be aborted after a woman died from a mouse inflicted head injury
in reply to @ompuco's post:
The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some of the limitations of randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, we believe that such trials remain the gold standard for the evaluation of most new treatments. The PARACHUTE trial does suggest, however, that their accurate interpretation requires more than a cursory reading of the abstract. Rather, interpretation requires a complete and critical appraisal of the study.
if this helps anyone get the joke
The only part I had to do a double take on was that this came out BEFORE 2020
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