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And the equivalent Facebook solution to the drug problem would be "Hey, we don't need to do clinical trials, because some medicine is better than no medicine, s
by addicted 11y ago
And the equivalent Facebook solution to the drug problem would be "Hey, we don't need to do clinical trials, because some medicine is better than no medicine, since there are desperate people who are willing to accept anything right now".
- throwawaykf05 11y agoRight, because the wrong kind of Internet access could kill people.
- fwn 11y agoWorse. It could be seen as something positive and then Netflix could be more expensive.
- bigbugbag 11y agoNot really, no. But you kinda got the idea: the wrong kind of network access could kill the internet. This is the whole net neutrality issue. No net neutrality, no internet.
- throwawaykf05 11y agoMaybe in the US, where there is a duopoly for the last-mile access for a large number of markets. Highly doubt it will happen in India because of the very rich, competitive Internet access market, as TFA points out.
- icebraining 11y agoYou mean, like the right-to-try laws that have been passed by 25 US states, allowing doctors to prescribe drugs not yet approved by the FDA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law
- Manishearth 11y agoYou still need a different form of FDA approval possibly involving animal trials (among other things) before getting "experimental drug" status.
- marcoperaza 11y agoIt's ridiculous that if I'm dying, I'm not free to use whatever experimental, theoretical, long-shot treatment that I damn well want.
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