#2530: Clinical Trials

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

1. Come up with new idea

2. Convince people it's good

[Scrawled in red as an afterthought, an arrow inserting it between item 2 and the original item 3]

3. Check whether it works

3. [Now scribbled over and amended to "4."]

New idea is adopted

[Caption below the panel]

The invention of clinical trials


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

We don't need to do a clinical trial of this change because the standard of care is to adopt new ideas without doing clinical trials.

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