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100% agree, and I'd add the fact the there are not enough trials for drugs that instead of curing illness do thing like slowing aging or improving mental perfor
by nnq 11y ago
100% agree, and I'd add the fact the there are not enough trials for drugs that instead of curing illness do thing like slowing aging or improving mental performance or otherwise improving physical or mental performance for healthy people, simply because most people are retarded enough to think that it's not ok to risk lives for purposes like "improving IQ by 10%" or "increasing lifespan by 10%".
We should absolutely make drug trials easier and cheaper to do, and also make it easier to test drugs that seek to do other things than fixing illnesses. Not freak out because of some accidents and add even more regulation. And yeah, we probably need more regulation, but for things like production, use and sales (like state-imposed price ceilings would come to mind for drugs). But we definitely want LESS regulations for research and testing! Despite tragic incidents like this one.
- pmiller2 11y agoThis drug was tested on chimps before humans. It's right in the article.
- nnq 11y agoMy bad. I've read about this from a different source, not the linked article, and it omitted this piece of information. I've deleted my last line comment concerning this, but it doesn't affect what I was trying to say, which was more in relation to the parent comment than to OP's linked article anyway.