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I'm guessing it's because the organization has been praised by a number of well-known people on the right (e.g., Steve Forbes, Ben Carson). And because the que
by downerending 7y ago
I'm guessing it's because the organization has been praised by a number of well-known people on the right (e.g., Steve Forbes, Ben Carson).
And because the question of whether or not this drug works, or even should be used at all, seems to have become highly politicized. I think I read that at least one US governor threatened to pull the medical license of any doctor that used it.
I don't have any idea whether this drug might be useful, but I think our most boring, apolitical scientists should be making that call. It could well end up that it sort of works, some of the time, perhaps in combination with other drugs or factors. Conceivably this will be solved the way AIDS ultimately was, slowly zeroing in on a set of treatments that mostly work.
- nradov 7y agoUS state governors don't have the authority to pull medical licenses.
- downerending 7y agoPerhaps. I believe that doctors are licensed at the state level, and if I were a doctor, I wouldn't care to cross a governor making such a statement.