Science!: Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options!
It is kind of weird that we still don’t know why the copper IUD works.
Now here’s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don’t they have to have something to compare the drug to, like a placebo? So if that’s true, then do they only have to use couples who wouldn’t mind if they got pregnant? How do they get the fail rates?
