In medicine, bad is the enemy of good. Improperly studied medicine rushed into a clinical setting can make things worse and are perfectly capable of making thin

In medicine, bad is the enemy of good. Improperly studied medicine rushed into a clinical setting can make things worse and are perfectly capable of making things worse on a grand scale, regardless of how terrible people's understanding of statistics and variance are. Doctors have the authority in many countries to prescribe it off label based on their own review of the evidence and their patient's consent. That's the best we can do right now without risking something much worse.