"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).

Tag: Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2016

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” goes federal, thus far unsuccessfully

Post author By Orac
Post date September 6, 2016
37 Comments on “Right to try” goes federal, thus far unsuccessfully

It’s been nearly two weeks since a new “right to try” bill (AB 1668) passed the California legislature with overwhelming support and was sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk to be signed. Thus far, he has not signed it, which is good, but neither have I seen a story that he has vetoed it either. […]

Tags California, fda, Goldwater Institute, libertarian, right to try, Stanislaw Burzynski, Trickett Wendler Right to Try Act of 2016

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