[tsol]

As someone fairly familiar with the medical world-- IME HN is generally very far off the mark about medical related issues. They don't understand that regulations in this industry are written in blood, and they often fail to realize how incredibly complex these problems are. Another issue is people also need to be able to trust healthcare-- if people felt the way they do about Facebook towards makers of antibiotics we'd have a huge issue(moreso than we already do with the current number of medicine skeptics). The Doctors running these trials can't afford to make these mistake, nor do they want to considering they generally do have a lot of face to face time with their 'customers' unlike in tech.

[naijaboiler]

Thank you for explaining what I am trying to say. Reading comments on HN on anything medical (or how they can use tech to improve medicine), I just have to continue shaking my head at the ignorant hubris on display, and the confidence with they are said. There's a reason all the big boys in tech who have tried making incursions into health industry have left with their tails tucked despite their considerable talent and money. The tech world attitude and ethos can not work in the medical world.