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Well-established medical practices aren't necessarily safe, they just have benefits that tend to outweigh the risks in normal use. When there are no established
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
Well-established medical practices aren't necessarily safe, they just have benefits that tend to outweigh the risks in normal use. When there are no established benefits, even a small risk is too much.
- SilasX 8y ago>When there are no established benefits, even a small risk is too much. Then how are you ever supposed to establish the benefits in the first place?
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThrough the same scientific processes we use for to verify all medicine and medicinal procedures. You don't establish benefits by selling it to the public.
- SilasX 8y agoYes, but that would still be disallowed under the claim that “even a small risk is too much”, hence my point :-p
- daveFNbuck 8y agoI was saying this in the context of offering a treatment to the general public. That's very different from a clinical trial, where there are benefits beyond the immediate effects on the patient that help to justify the individual risk. The benefits of scientific studies on medical treatments are well-established. Even if you think you can find some weird corner case where this doesn't apply, do you disagree with the general principle that benefits should outweigh risks for medical procedures?