[WildTurkey]

It's the reason that people who have 'incurable' diseases subject themselves to medical studies that have the proviso that the drugs are experimental and may actually have adverse affects.

Not the same comparison. The If it is incurable, the chance of death is 100% if no action is taken.

When you go into surgery, the surgeon is careful to mention that there are no guarantees, and that you may die as a result of invasive procedures. But you get your gall bladder taken out, anyway.

Would you go to a surgeon that would give you a 77% chance that at the end of the surgery he would not have removed your gall bladder?

[ColoCdn]

If it was 77% probable that I would die because of surgery, and 100% probable that I would die without it, sure I'd take the surgery.

That's not a very subtle argument.

[ColoCdn]

It's been fun. Gotta go. CYa