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Have you seen the thread yesterday where someone was complaining that they are dying and the government is preventing them from trying an experimental treatment

Have you seen the thread yesterday where someone was complaining that they are dying and the government is preventing them from trying an experimental treatment? You guys should talk :) And there were so many comments lamenting the total lack of sense of forbidding certain treatments.... As in many situations, there is a balance to be struck. It's just so sad seeing so many people, presumably smart people, complaining about how an opinion opposed to theirs can't possibly make any sense whatsoever. This is why we can't have nice things.

uoaei 3y ago
We can't have nice things because people ignore nuance in order to make bad faith arguments :) There is a difference between "we don't know the effects of this treatment, there is reason to believe it could work but we have no statistics, so the risk is on you" and "we know the negative effects of this product, we have plenty of statistics on the empirical risk, so we made a decision to limit the behaviors of those providing the product".