Responding to the question “What is meant by randomized control trial?
I asked this question to ChatGPT, and while I found the response valuable (attached below), I have concerns regarding the current practice of controlled trials.
Physicians often add the term “double-blind RCT” to make it sound more authentic—meaning that neither the person administering the treatment nor the person analyzing the data knows which treatment was given.
As ChatGPT stated, RCTs are considered the “gold standard.” However, many—including physicians and so-called experts—take this to imply that RCTs are a true scientific test or approach. They are not. At best, they can be considered a kind of survey. The reason is that subjects (patients) are treated as if they are constant, with little or no variability, which is simply incorrect.
Because of this flaw, extremely large numbers of subjects are required (at great financial cost and to the benefit of physician-researchers). Yet, even then, the results are always of limited scientific value. This helps explain why modern medicine research has failed to succeed in treating illness—and why, in fact, illness continues to increase.
For these reasons, I personally am not a supporter of, nor do I agree with, the (double-blinded) randomized controlled trial approach. It promotes not true science, but false science.
