Life science industry is most influenced by the lawyers and regulatory experts.

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[wormsy]

In today's world, neither the FDA, nor a pharmaceutical company will approve of/develop medicine that is not very, very safe. The development of the agricultural antifungal azoxystrobin, to given an example, cost 130 million USD. Of course nobody invests in something that results in even a small percentage of bad side effects.

This has to do with lawyers.

Pharmaceutical companies don't care how many lives are saved with their drugs, neither do they care about how many people die because of it. They only care about their shareholders.

This means that today, anything that might (help) cure disease but is not very, very safe, will simply not be legal to use. Not to protect the patient, but to protect the shareholder.

Assume you have a deadly disease like Lyme or, related to long-term Lyme treatment, disseminated candidiasis, also deadly. Soon you'll discover that nothing cures you. In case of Lyme you only improve slowly but relapse when antibiotics are discontinued, and in case of candidiasis you don't even improve.

Some of us, the thinkers amongst us with courage and initiative, discovered in scientific literature or otherwise that there are very interesting ways to help kill bacteria or fungi. But those ways are closed to us, because the are illegal. No doctor will prescribe dog's flea pills or an agricultural pesticide against candidiasis, because he'll end up in the slammer. No doctor will inject people with DNP or he will end up in gaol.

I'm sure some of us sometimes think "Wouldn't it be nice if I could go to a doctor and he would treat me exactly like I wanted to, I can pay and I did the research and I want to be injected with DNP/I want him to prescribe me an industrial antifungal".

You won't find such doctors. The only doctors who do such things are by definition "criminal", so they don't do it.

We need more patients who become more knowledgeable than their doctors, and we need "criminal" doctors to help us how we want to be helped. Last time I checked I was living in a market-economy and I am supposed to be the master of my own body as long as I am not insane. I propose that there will be doctors that are allowed to do *any* treatment as long as the patient submits a scientifically sound argumentation why he/she wants to be treated like that. In case of a dispute the case can be decided to a panel of experts (on the web), or another such doc can take that patient.

It is cruel to let people die while they can be saved, just because lawyers or insurance companies make it difficult. Matters of life & death should not be decided by financial controllers but by us, the patients. As long as we make an educated decision and we sign a disclaimer and pay, nothing should stop us.

[wormsy]

Dear all

I'm trying to gather some information on a research topic. I argue that the life science industry today is defined by the lawyers and regulatory experts, not the scientists, venture capitalists and investment bankers.

I found the above thread in google, which I thought can serve as a starter for our discussion.

KIndly assist.