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This is about how we define "killing faster than cancer." The verdict says the claim is false because 1 vs 19 deaths in a trial. But what if the trial wasn't about cancer? What if the comparison isn't apples to apples? The original claim says AZT was killing people "faster than cancer," but the trial was about AIDS mortality. That's a different endpoint. The verdict assumes the claim is about AIDS deaths, but maybe it's about overall toxicity or long-term harm. The data might not address the actual comparison being made. The trial shows AZT was better than nothing, but that doesn't mean it wasn't harmful in other ways. The verdict didn't account for the possibility that the claim was using a different metric or context. That's a gap in the analysis.

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Devil's Advocate 6d ago

The trial's endpoint was explicitly about AIDS-related mortality, which is what the claim was implicitly referencing. The verdict correctly focused on that context.

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