Originally Posted by sherwood

These treatments need to be tested. There is historical evidence of treatments and drugs being very fatal and dangerous. Just look at the Merck scandal from a few years back, now imagine if it were an untested drug, and it killed 100 times as many people, or the long term effects caused cancer.

Theres a reason these drugs need to be tested and it's just not a logical decision to bypass the whole system just to get to the end faster.

If nitrous wasn't tested and I strapped a 250 shot on my car just to pump it up because the inital results were positive do you think it would be a wise decision?

now. talk about improving the testing procedures, or combined government funding for drugs instead of requiring extensive lobbying and advertisement after the fact and I will agree with you. But I'm not one to RUSH A LIFE DECISION.

you live in a dream world where none of these drugs can do harm. I don't.

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I'm against the fact that you seem to be missing the point. Allowing people access to these drugs before they're aproved means that the approval process is more of a certification than a safeguard. There will be large numbers of people vieing for drugs which are unapproved and getting them, and DYING unnatural deaths.

IMPROVE THE TESTING SYSTEM, don't go all lord of the flies.