I am close with a few folks in medical research and the broken nature of the system and sheer amount of red tape has broken their dreams. It is impossible to get anything done.

There is a difference between "reasonable guardrails" and suffocating progress until it's nearly impossible barring Herculean efforts by multibillion dollar entities. It cannot be understated how badly the current bureaucracy has destroyed medical progress.

We are seeing the same problem with nuclear overregulation result in worse outcomes and more deaths for people globally.

There is real suffering and a human cost, measurable in lives, to slowing down progress - just as there is one for reckless progress.