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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Because stopping the study would stop the control group from having risky sex in the future... Both groups will continue to have sex. They will both be exposed. And if you have played roulette, there can be streaks, but in the end everything will get closer to even.
And it seems unfair to have one group of people not having sex because they are healing and hyper-sensitive for a few weeks of the short study time. And who knows what the personalities of the people in each group was or how often they were having sex with new partners (or condom use). That is a big assumption they made right there.
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If you subjected your perspective to as much skepticism and scrutiny as you are the wealth of information counter to your perspective you might find that you don't really have a solid basis to believe what you believe.
Have you read the study yet? It seems pretty clear from the assumptions you've presented about the study that you haven't read it. What is the significance of the fact that you've conjured up all these different reasons why it is invalid even though you haven't read it? Has it occurred to you at all that the researchers may have shared your concerns and developed an experimental plan that would eliminate or reduce the potential for bias?
The study says what it says and it seems to agree with several other studies. You don't have to believe it and you don't have to convoluticate justifications to me for why you don't believe it. I'm just saying that science isn't on your side, for whatever that's worth.