Hmm I&#x27;m pretty sure that &#x27;hoped&#x27; in this case means something like: &quot;Well, in a normal case we would have recommended 12 doses of the medicine in order to get a full recovery.&quot;<p>This is not like testing stuff with a computer program, you can not reset the human to a known state and replicate the experiment all over again.<p>Following your logic, even all vaccines are a lie, how can we know that the vaccines that we take every year are doing anything?