[influx]

Their body, their choice.

Steve Jobs probably killed himself by his medical choices but that’s what he wanted to do.

Should we have strapped him in and forced him to get conventional medicine?

[magicalist]

> Steve Jobs probably killed himself by his medical choices but that’s what he wanted to do. Should we have strapped him in and forced him to get conventional medicine?

No, but we could have regulated transparency of "nontraditional medicine" and any fraudulent claims the people he was listening to were making.

[sneak]

Walgreens sells homeopathic products on the shelf right next to real medicine.

The NHS and German public health systems pay public money for homeopathic fake remedies.

(To their credit the NHS has reduced the practice.)

[astrange]

This can be effective; a lot of medicines have experimental evidence saying they don't work, because they aren't better than placebo, but the reason for this is that the placebo works too.

[magicalist]

Or they can kill your baby: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/fda-confirms-toxicit...