BD's are not nearly as important as the voting question(s) - part of the purpose of the BDs is to question drug trial results, try to poke holes in the data or highlight side effects, and that's normal, doesn't just apply to AMRN. You are assuming the R-IT BDs will focus only on negatives for a trial full of positives, so your fear and loathing scenario doesn't even have a 50% chance of occurring IMO - if they clearly lean to the positive and the voting question is unambiguous, what will actually happen is a short squeeze.