Comment by Loughla
8 hours ago
I'm currently on two fairly common medicines that have, in the first paragraph when reading about them, "doctors are unsure of the specific action, but it is thought that [medicine does x to y]"
If I'm terminal with cancer, I'll inject whatever if it can cure that.
Exactly, we only get to run risky clinical trials because patients are 100% desperate and know they are likely to die otherwise.