I call BS on this one. It is impossible to believe anybody even remotely familiar with clinical trials would make this mistake. What you are seeing is just intentional deciet by companies to keep the share price up.
What is the aphorism? - never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence?
That said I am not sure that the exact cause matters.
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