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If there's a legitimate effective treatment available, they're no longer terminal cases, are they? I suppose you could hypothesize someone refusing treatment u

• Johnny555 3y ago
  This article is about a doctor with incurable cancer who was able to find a experimental treatment that so far seems to be helping. If instead he had been focusing on magic magnetic bracelets with no hope of helping, he may have not have tried this science based treatment.
  • flir 3y ago
    I've thought about this for a couple of days because I thought it deserved serious attention, and I see your point, but a terminally ill patient choosing "the wrong one" between two possible treatment paths when neither of them is likely to work seems like such a corner case that I don't think it should block, or even modify, "right to try" laws. (And on further thought, magnetic bracelets aren't currently banned, so it seems like a bit of a straw man. I can't think of a woo treatment that could potentially be unlocked by a right-to-try law. I think they're all already available - Steve Jobs' certainly was, to take one famous example).