The trial acronymania menace

As if there's not enough for us to remember, we're supposed to remember endless acronyms for trials too now. There's even a wiki to help us keep them straight and a call for a register of trial acronyms to reduce multiple use of all the words ending in T!

Somewhere along the line this became marketing: not much equipoise in ACHIEVE, MIRACLE or PROMISE, eh? A study has classified this as a form of coercion. Ivan Oransky called for a HALT (Help Acronyms Leave Trials). If you're irritated by the next outbreak of trial acronymania or acronymesis you come across, you're not alone!


Another trial acronym here at Statistically Funny.....Meet the AGHAST Investigators!