[candiodari]

> Any serious proposal needs to start from the basis that a drug probably won't work, until proven otherwise.

Also any proposal needs to take into account that drug trials kill something like 1-2% of patients and inflict lifelong damage on a further 5-10% of them.

Yes, even the ones "proven" to be safe (in the very short term) to use on normal healthy people.

We've had "free to choose" medicine before, and time and time again there is a screwup where 50 or so people (sometimes more) get subjected to incredible damage or killed because of a confluence of factors (pregnancy is a factor that is particularly famous for messing with drugs in a thousand different ways, as is alcohol, parasites, and certain types of bacteria. But it is very hard to know beforehand, there's even a few drugs that have different effects on different races)

[valuearb]

So we ban drugs that save thousands because they killed dozens?