And you want to open the Pandora's Box to legions of snake oil salesmen who will vastly outnumber the good players? see: Steve Jobs If you go this route, the

And you want to open the Pandora's Box to legions of snake oil salesmen who will vastly outnumber the good players? see: Steve Jobs If you go this route, the snake oil will quickly crowd out the treatments that actually have a chance of making things better. Not only will dying individuals be less able to wade through the garbage, but the researchers will have a tougher time getting to the patients they need for actual trials so future patients will also be impacted negatively. Dying cancer patients have my sympathy, but I also went through this with Alzheimer's treatments for a parent. I had to wade through a VAST amount of garbage treatments that were even "officially approved". At least they went through clinical trials so they weren't actively harmful, mostly. I can't imagine the disaster that would ensue if treatments for terminal patients didn't at least have to clear some level of phased trials.