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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Future of Medicines

The current procedures just like don't allow you to buy a drug that's not fda approved. If there was some standardized phone number and website where if you if you tried it and you had any kind of reverse event you were like strongly encouraged, he says. He thinks medical treatment should really only be banned banned by the federal government preventing people from receiving something even if they're informed or who willing to opt in and accept the risk. The FDA should mostly stand back and just its role should be an advisory one advising patients on what treatments they think have been proven to be safe and proven to be effective i say.

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