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Only for lab mice. Humans require making it clear that they are not being used as lab mice. But often, you see report saying that "After seeing the results for
by zkmon 1y ago
Only for lab mice. Humans require making it clear that they are not being used as lab mice. But often, you see report saying that "After seeing the results for x years of use by populations, we found that it has y side effect which was not known earlier". A doctor literally said this to me last week.
- Calavar 1y agoWhat alternative process do you propose that will discover all side effects, including those with well under 1% occurence, without human use?
- squigz 1y ago> "After seeing the results for x years of use by populations, we found that it has y side effect which was not known earlier" I would think that any reasonably intelligent adult could think about things for a few moments and come to the realization that... yeah, that's how things work. This is how we progress and learn. We develop, test, use, and learn about things - and if we learn that hey, turns out, this is bad over a long period of time... we change things. And this of course doesn't apply to just medicine - it's just technological progress.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoWhat's the alternative? "Oh, sorry, we would like to treat your baby's malaria, but that would disregard the baby's inherent dignity: we don't yet know the full side-effect profile up to 3 sigmas." Most indignities are lesser than dying of malaria.
- standardUser 1y agoNo one in the US is going to force you to take medication. You are free to die. You are also free to leave.
- golem14 1y agoSome humans might be perfectly willing to be used as lab mice. Those predestined to die soon or have very low quality of life for instance. That's why some advanced cancer patients can get very experimental meds. It gets pretty bad though when others are affected, cf. Thalidomide babies.