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Through the same scientific processes we use for to verify all medicine and medicinal procedures. You don't establish benefits by selling it to the public.



Yes, but that would still be disallowed under the claim that “even a small risk is too much”, hence my point :-p


I was saying this in the context of offering a treatment to the general public. That's very different from a clinical trial, where there are benefits beyond the immediate effects on the patient that help to justify the individual risk. The benefits of scientific studies on medical treatments are well-established.

Even if you think you can find some weird corner case where this doesn't apply, do you disagree with the general principle that benefits should outweigh risks for medical procedures?




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