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The medical & scientific professionals who order – & desperately need! – new tests aren't laypeople sifting through online mattress reviews. They are experts,
by gojomo 7y ago
The medical & scientific professionals who order – & desperately need! – new tests aren't laypeople sifting through online mattress reviews.
They are experts, who can compare results in real cases, learn what's working, and then share their experiences – in their small, real-names, real-reputations communities – with others.
And the tests that have been blocked aren't being developed by fly-by-night hucksters who ride a horse-drawn cart into town, then disappear into the night before their trickery is revealed. They're by existing medical/biotech/scientific giants – who are already supplying the same doctors/hospitals other trusted diagnostics, or supplying the exact same tests around the world with strong track records.
If you think the fake-mattress-reviews issue is a major one, by all means, get a "Federal Mattress Agency" to save the poor consumers. But let doctors/hospitals/scientists develop, and try, new things without months/years of delay on low-risk products.
- Retric 7y agoTheranos is a recent example of medical professionals being fooled by exactly that kind of hucksters. Without regulation I assume the situation would deteriorate significantly as the risks of being sued would still exist but be irrelevant for people who took the money and ran.
- josefx 7y agoAs far as I understand Theranos actually bled money to provide correct results through traditional testing methods while it pretended to use its own devices. Given that Theranos was basically a black box to any outside observer medical professionals only saw that they had something that obviously worked. Other than violating various lab regulations it mostly defrauded investors while still providing the service it was paid for. If it gets bad enough I think having a few investors defrauded is an acceptable risk.