[abeppu]

So, if the ethical problem is not attempting self-treatment, but that publishing about self-treatment will lead others to make potentially dangerous choices ... then isn't the publishing process, and its selection bias for positive results really the problematic part? If we never hear about people who attempt self-treatment which then doesn't work, and we occasionally hear about people who were successful, and there's no larger systematic study, then people will get an unrealistic view of the chances of success.

[tonetegeatinst]

I mean this would also imply that researchers have an incentive to publish. The incentive to publish and see results that are "good" and "potential treatments" for a disease mean any funding or research grant is seeing a financial motivation to conduct research, and because good outcomes are seen favorably by investors that creates bias and conflict.