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It seems China is repeating similar mistakes the western world did in the 20th century (e.g. psychosurgery, very weak regulations). It's like watching a car sec

• squidbeak 2mo ago
  The article explicitly states: > The rapid adoption, in the absence of hard evidence, prompted Chinese regulators to intervene. Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings, rather than the ad hoc use that had proliferated previously. And Xie, the pioneer of the technique, has been in detention since September for undisclosed reasons.
• idiotsecant 2mo ago
  There is probably also some benefit to being willing to let some harm come to patients in order to quickly determine if treatments are viable or not. Western medicine puts a premium on human life but development of treatments is certainly slowed by that ethos .
  • siva7 2mo ago
    It puts a "premium" on life only because all those regulations were written with blood from those who can't defend themselves anymore as those same arguments were used back then as they are today.
    • idiotsecant 2mo ago
      Yes, obviously. Point still stands. There is benefit to the collective in sacrificing the few. It's abhorrent to western sensibilities but i bet the west would be happy to use the resulting research, just like previous times it has happened.
  • fyltr 2mo ago
    Western medicine has been lax on ethos and rigor in the past and we ended up exterminating and neutering large amounts of the population to 'keep the genetic heritage pure'. That is still a major traumatism that forces us to approach medicine with a very strong ethos.
• FooBarWidget 2mo ago
  > very weak regulations Seems you missed out on 10-15 years of development. Regulation strictness these days rival western.
• u8080 2mo ago
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