"Many of these will be scams or harmful" but that's a risk you're willing to take? Personally I'm against pharmaceutical industries fleecing people with rare di

"Many of these will be scams or harmful" but that's a risk you're willing to take? Personally I'm against pharmaceutical industries fleecing people with rare diseases for which no current interventions currently exist. Medical regulations didn't come about in a vacuum—absent these we'd have many more examples like the Tuskegee syphilis study. I'm fine with people critiquing the medical industry. Most people doing so are coming from a place of emotion, though. This anti-intellectualism in the US has always been bad but it seems now society is willing to turn the dial back on germ theory, vaccines, antibiotics, etc. People can innovate without breaking things, I know suggesting such to an audience primarily composed of software engineers is taboo. However it is definitely possible to move at a decent pace and not break shit when you're working with sick human beings.