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Terence Tao Fears a Cancer Cure Nobody Can Explain. The FDA Clears Cancer Drugs That Never Proved They Extend Life.
Terence Tao says he would want a human expert to understand an AI cancer cure before taking it. The oncologist Vinay Prasad says that misses how medicine already works, and the receipts show the cancer drugs worth fearing are the legible ones approved on a shrinking tumor that never proved they help
Drugs & FDAGaming a Cancer Trial Is 'Cheap and Easy,' Says a Former Top FDA Official
Vinay Prasad says nobody needs AI to fake a phase 3 cancer win, and a Mayo Clinic audit found 16 of 96 FDA cancer approvals rested on control arms its authors judged suboptimal.
Drugs & FDAChina Runs More Drug Trials Than America. The FDA Says It Can No Longer Trust Data From Sites It Can't Inspect.
China went from under 8 percent of the world's drug trials in 2010 to passing the United States by 2020. After three deaths in Chinese studies surfaced late, the FDA says it has sometimes been denied access to the very sites whose data underpins American approvals.