http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19056-death-revives-warnings-about-rogue-stem-cell-clinics.html?page=1
“It’s a dreadful reminder reinforcing the absolute necessity for robust safety data in animal models before entering regulated clinical trials,” says Chris Mason, director of regenerative medicine at University College London.
Shut, The Fuck, Up. If you assholes would actually accomplish something, by say allowing anyone who wants into dangerous clinical trials so long as there is money and they fit the study parameters, maybe we’d learn something from a virtually inexhaustible supply of volunteers that you currently tell to go home and die quietly. God forbid we should actually make a rank and file death MEAN something.
And then maybe if you’d put your fucking results in the public domain instead of sitting on them for another decade while the FDA drags its ass with approvals or bury them in arcane language in the middle of a journal server that I have pay 400$ a month to see, just so some fucking corporation can patent the shit out of every step making sure they can either charge 20k$ per kilogram when it finally is released or bury the shit altogether so that treatments can continue to be sold.
Until this shit no longer happens, expect people to seek out alternative medicine. After all, if mainstream medicine says you’re going to die anyway, and since there IS no place for people willing to risk their lives in a study, expect more deaths and countless more secret cures.
I say bring on the black market medical. You idiots actually think the likes of Monsanto or Halliburton would release a cure for something if they were profiting from treatment? You think for a SECOND the pharmaceutical companies don’t have off the books research facilities?
They outsource the fucking phones, what kind of idiot do you have to be to think they aren’t going to outsource clinical trials to countries where life is cheap? And what would they do if they found a cure under those conditions? Rush to tell the world what they found and how they found it? Would they innovate themselves out of a job out of the goodness of their hearts? Really?
I read about high tech solutions to problems every day that I know won’t hit the street for 50 years and I know for a fact it has fuck all to do with ability. Its about lawsuits and money and paranoia and most importantly flat out not giving a shit about sick people or progress generally.
If I’m allowed to jump out of a plane for fun, if I’m allowed to drink ethanol for fun, if I’m allowed to sign up to be shot at, if I’m allowed to climb into a car every day, if I’m allowed to pray instead of getting dialysis, then I should damn well be allowed to gamble with my life and my money when the mainstream tells me I’m fucked.
Seriously, what kind of moron tells someone NOT to gamble when a gamble is sometimes all you have left? A greedy heartless moron, that’s what kind. Lets see how silly you think all this shit is when your doctor tells you that you aren’t going to see christmas.
I think this woman is a hero. The data from her death will help people. And if you think this is the first time data from a crime has gone on to save lives, you’re not a big student of history and I suggest you look into it.
For the record: We need to legalize the treatment of patients by unlicensed professionals so long as that status is made clear prior to treatment.
There are countless medical procedures that are described as “routine.” I should be allowed to master one, and sell it. If my customers don’t feel they need a “real” doctor they can come to me. See what I mean? Then all of the sudden it doesn’t cost 400$ to get a cold in this country.
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