This reads like the manifesto for someone hawking colloidal silver, or whatever the fake-remedy-of-the-day is.
There's a reason those regulations exist.
There's a reason those regulations exist.
Also, what do you have any thoughts about regulation that stops experimental treatment decisions from being made by those who are destined to die anyways?
Should we use the terminally ill like Guinea pigs, no. But there should be a path to waive liability and consent to experimental drug treatment in cases of terminal illness.
That goes for "off label" uses of scheduled substances too. If I have cancer and am on my deathbed, dose me with LSD please.
A lot of the gouging we currently see happens through FDA-approved treatments that are given monopolies due to regulatory capture.
The laetrile hoax cure for cancer (https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.3322/...) and similar incidents before before and since show that people who are dying become desperate and are easy prey for people selling snake oil.
Any measure has positive and negative side. And some are positive for society but bad for individuals.
Education, not regulation, should be tried. Introduce medicine, nutrition and friends in the primary school, inspire people to take care on their bodies and do not promote health outsorcing.