“The problem is not that Halassy used self-experimentation as such, but that publishing her results could encourage others to reject conventional treatment and try something similar, says Sherkow. People with cancer can be particularly susceptible to trying unproven treatments.”
fuck. of course. I don’t see an issue with people who particularly nasty stuff trying unproven treatments and jeez your not going to stop them. I mean I believe jobs though fruitarianism was going to cure his cancer or some such. As long as they are only risking themselves I don’t see an issue.
So the problem here is this.
- Imagine that you have terminal cancer, but you’re not a famous virologist.
- Somebody comes along and offers you untested, experimental treatment injections for the low, low price of $75,000.
- Gofundme.
I’ve seen exactly that type of scenario play out with my own relatives. It’s a good reason why medical treatments marketed to the public should be proven to be safe and effective.
“Halassy has no regrets about self-treating” well no shit xD
Also, it’s not like most people can just walk into a lab and start cooking to cancer eating viruses. Just because I know someone did it doesn’t mean anything to me if I found out I have cancer tomorrow.
people do much more stupider things to themselves than curing cancer with high end biotech
I’m two months into a diet and my hungry ass thought this was a pizza party
Ok, why?
Hungty for pizza!
apparently the press thinks people without degrees are incapable of looking at transmission electron micrographs without gaudy nearly-useless false color
People who are consenting and terminal are as close to ethical human test subjects as you could possibly get. The only ethical question here is whether it’s acceptable when someone is not profiting from it, and who’s pride gets hurt.
To me, the ethical thing to do would be to allow people to make their own choices about their own bodies and their own lives, unless the don’t possess the mental ability to do so. Anything else would be unethical.
And that’s how you get a new Spider-Man villain.
I was going to say, this is how we get “I am Legend”.
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No pizza, no care
