Research reading group
Call recaps
Written up afterwards by the facilitator. There are no recordings of any circle call and there never will be — it is a design position, not an oversight — and nobody is identified beyond a first name.
Phase two is not phase three
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The retatrutide phase 2 paper — Jastreboff AM, et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2023;389(6):514 to 526. Sixteen people, and the reason we came back to this one is that it is quoted…
The kidney paper and what a composite endpoint hides
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FLOW — Perkovic V, et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2024;391(2):109 to 121. We had covered it jointly with the type 2 circle in the spring; this was the proper technical read,…
The cardiovascular trial, and relative against absolute
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SELECT — Lincoff AM, et al. New England Journal of Medicine 2023;389(24):2221 to 2232. Our biggest reading group to date, largely because this is the paper members are quoted at most…
The withdrawal paper, read without the panic
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STEP 4 — Rubino D, et al. JAMA 2021;325(14):1414 to 1425. Fourteen people, most of whom arrived having heard some version of you put it all back on, which is where the popular claim has…