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LeftishBrit

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2. While that could well be an unintended consequence and a danger...
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:53 PM
Mar 2016

I think such legislation is intended for a different purpose: not for enabling woo-medicines, but for allowing people to try medical drugs that have undergone some testing, but not yet reached the final stage. Usually these would be medicines that have been shown to be relatively safe, and where there's some reason for thinking that the medicine might work, but where effectiveness has not been fully proved.

I'm divided on this. On the one hand, it could enable quacks and truly dodgy Pharma types (such as Wakefield!); on the other hand, if you're certain to die without treatment, maybe you should have the right to try medication that might work.

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