>it takes so long (often 10–15 years) and costs billions to bring a new drug to market
>>16823687Get it legalized in multiple third world shitholes and prove its efficacy there. The safety testing is probably cheaper too.
>>16823687To be fair, if the system were on the opposite extreme end of the spectrum, there would be thousands of deaths every year from outright poisonous drugs with no benefit whatsoever>inb4 insert pharmaceutical here is totally bas for you with no upside-Kill yourself
>>16823687ethics is bringing down scientific research. during world war II, when human experimentation was a thing, medicine advanced so much faster than now
>>16823734This statement makes me want to go on a monilogue about how hard choices are necessary for the benefit of mankind like a movie villain you can usually come up with 100 reasons why their ideas are retarded
allow testing to be done on violent criminals
>>16823687Medical tech gets tested off the books on third world prisoners and when it works it starts the official tests
>Not if you do emergency authorization
>>16823687>r&d needs moneyYou spend 10x that on ads and 100x on shareholder compensation.
>>16823687design it so it also increases muscle mass and voilà, the most uncritical pharmacutical testers are now availableAlternatively make it either activate opioid receptors or be slightly anxiety-reducing, then you'll also have many volunteers
>>16823748Kek. None of this "off the books". This is how the system was designed.
>>16823707>there would be thousands of deaths every year from outright poisonous drugs with no benefit whatsoeverfunny you say that but Tylenol, the dogshit drug that do almost nothing but clogging your kidney, is the most widespread off the counter.
>>16824030That's how it used to work in the 50s 60s 70s, especially vaccines.
>>16824027>i want shot for big weenie
>>16824032Drug trials have always used unwilling participants. Still does today. Always will.
>>16823687the fda needs to make sure it doesnt actually cure anything
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>>16823748If this was true development would be 2-3 years
>>16823687It's because of (((regulations))) as we all know>>16823707Completely fine, we kill animals all the timeOne could even say that dying a swift death in a drug trial is preferable to slaving away for a lifetime of hard labor
>>16823687Thalidomide go brrrrr