Are there stupid questions here? A staff answer, at length — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked.
Counting it rather than describing it, because the count is the part that can be argued with.
28 instances over 6 weeks, recorded the same way each time, 2 of them different enough from the rest that I have set them aside and said so.
That is the whole dataset. The question in the title is what it does and does not support.
The compound and evidence pages are updated regularly and they are worth reading when you are new. They answer the meta questions like "do we have data on this" and "what do the trials actually show" before you ask them.
Second-hand, so weight it accordingly.
Nothing here requires expertise. The experienced members here got that way by posting questions, not by knowing the answer before they showed up. If you know something useful, post it. If you do not, ask.
Happy to expand any of that if it is the useful part.
The compound pages are the fastest way to find out whether a question has a published answer at all. If the page says the trial is ongoing, that is the honest state of it and no thread will improve on that.
The FAQ link in the sidebar is maintained and worth ten hours of forum browsing. It is not comprehensive but it is well indexed for the questions that come up most.
Introducing yourself is fine and requires no question. Post in this subcategory, describe the context that matters for why you are here, and lurk for a bit before posting technical questions. That order works well.
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