This is an important point. Medical innovation can be perilous. I'm reminded of the setbacks for gene therapy in the 1990s. The case of Jesse Gelsinger was embl

This is an important point. Medical innovation can be perilous. I'm reminded of the setbacks for gene therapy in the 1990s. The case of Jesse Gelsinger was emblematic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger Speaking of radical therapies, this also reminded me of this New Yorker article I read years ago: http://www.michaelspecter.com/2001/02/the-outlaw-doctor/ http://www.michaelspecter.com/2001/02/the-outlaw-doctor/ Every time I recall this, I mean to lookup whatever became of this guy. Finally did. A bit of a follow-up here: A test of his protocol, published in 2009, found that Gonzalez's patients died faster than those treated with conventional chemotherapy, and had significantly worse quality of life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Gonzalez_%28physician%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Gonzalez_%28physician%...