A good counterpoint to this is Banting and Best (https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/discovery-insulin.html https://www.nobelprize.org/educ

A good counterpoint to this is Banting and Best (https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/discovery-insulin.html https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/disc...). These guys back in the 20s discovered insulin and brought it to market and started using it on patients in widespread distribution in 3 years. As soon as they figured out it would work by injecting a dog, then themselves, then a patient they went into a children's hospital and started injecting kids with it who were in diabetic comas and they started waking up. These days their research would require multi-million dollar clinical trials and take 10 years or longer. The point being, the drug testing process for terminal illnesses is very very slow. There are also drugs that show some efficacy in curing Parkinsons like Nilotinib, but they won't cure anyone who isn't getting it outside the system for at least another 10 years, even if it works perfectly. I think there should be some more risk tolerance and looser regulation for people with terminal illnesses as long as the research is done on a non-profit basis. Even if you had the cure for a terminal illness right now it wouldn't be on the market for 10 years and a lot of people would die needlessly because of that.