No, I'm not saying that worry makes anyone smarter. I'm saying that it is nobody's business but the worrier. All this chastisement and ridicule of people that have doubts is BS. I'm 62 years old and I'm fed up with the BS from self important lecturers. I truly hope you are right and I value your opinion. I'm just not as sure, which makes me worry.
"In all likelihood the bridging study and the PIII would have been about the same amount of time."
I'm sorry, but I have to call B.S. on this. Nobody was thinking along these lines going into the BTD decision. Everyone was talking about 45-90 days max in order to obtain additional data and how that would push back the end game to Q1 of 2015 instead of the end of 2014. Even Dees referred to the possibility of a "short bridging study" in the BTD announcement. For you to now say the bridging study would have been as long as a full blown phase III study is really disingenuous.
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