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I addressed this in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247715
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
I addressed this in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247715
- ethanbond 3y agoWhat did you address? It sounds like you're just saying to give the drug away for free to another cohort of people who will be producing totally useless and incomparable data. Not opposed to that, but it's not a study cohort. It's just "give investigational drug away for free."
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago> What did you address? This part: > You're not really allowed to say, "just try it in a bunch of people, it's okay if untrained folks mess it up because if they do we can just throw out the data." --- > It's just "give investigational drug away for free." And here insurance regulation can also come in to play along with the pharma regulation. Sure, none of this would be easy. But the status quo has issues too.