I agree. I currently take a drug which has theoretical pathways that could cause significantly elevated cancer risk over the course of your lifetime. Research h

I agree. I currently take a drug which has theoretical pathways that could cause significantly elevated cancer risk over the course of your lifetime. Research hasn't shown any significantly increased risk over 10 or 20 years but we don't have data from studies for longer periods in which it could significantly elevate cancer rates. Ultimately, shorter term studies are an approximation. They're the best you can do. We can't do a life long study on this drug before making it available but we can draw information from shorter studies. Similarly, we can't do a life long basic income experiment, there's not the money out there, but we can study the shorter approximation and do it with more people and draw conclusions from that. All experiments entail compromise. The fact that neither of these bodies of science can have the ideal experiment is not a flaw but just part of doing science.