Heusser, Peter2024-05-232024-05-23date not ihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14430/273This is an article by a physician who has been involved with cancer therapy for a number of years. He has taken a look at the hallowed ground of scientific research. The problem of ran­domization to create comparable groups is a total impossibility if the individual - unique factor is taken into consideration. It is doubtful that a human being can be found who does not attest to his own uniqueness. If this is one's therapeutic orientation, then randomization is not possible. The only alternative is to eliminate individuality and take a set of agreed on comparables, e.g. age, weight, profession, gender, illness, etc. Here illness is looked on as an isolate. It is just the isolation that the population is begin­ning to revolt about - not the illness isolation, but personal isola­tion. The author further looks at the intricacies of the placebo — here pointing to the role of the therapeutician. Mechanical dis­pensers, mechanical communicators would be the next step to eliminate the therapeutician, the placebo effort of the physician. A provocative placebo trial system might be to assign patients in a randomized study where medicine dispensing machines are used. This might appear to be far fetched but many a patient seen in practice senses this about what some therapeuticians are today. Recognized researchers are now pointing to such problems, but they are not being heard. The author goes on to make suggestions which could serve as a spring board for another approach to the evaluation of therapies.Cancer researchCancer treatmentCancer/library/2019/1/21/some-thoughts-on-the-problems-which-are-connected-with-randomized-and-blind-clinical-studies