"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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A victory and a more substantial defeat for the cruel sham known as “right to try”

Post author By Orac
Post date September 30, 2016
47 Comments on A victory and a more substantial defeat for the cruel sham known as “right to try”

I’ve referred to so-called “right to try” laws as a cruel sham.on more than one occasion. Since 2014, these laws, all based on a template provided by the libertarian Goldwater Institute, have been proliferating at the state level with the help of lobbying by the aforementioned Goldwater Institute and a concept that makes it pitifully […]

Tags clinical trials, Ebrahim Delpassand, Excel Diagnostics, experimental therapeutics, right to try, Ron Johnson, Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2016

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“Right to try”: A miserable failure thus far

Post author By Orac
Post date September 8, 2016
24 Comments on “Right to try”: A miserable failure thus far

I’ve frequently called “right to try” laws that are popping up in various states like so much kudzu, to the point where 31 states have passed them in a little over two years, an amazing pace, a cruel sham, given how incredibly unlikely they are to help a single patient. Basically, state-level right-to-try laws are […]

Tags Caring Bridge, clinical trials, Excel Diagnostics, Gail Christopher, GoFundMe, Goldwater Institute, libertarian, neuroendocrine tumor, pancreatic cancer, Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy, right to try, Steve Jobs

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