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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

TZ

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3. Speaking as someone

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon May 19, 2014, 08:49 AM

May 2014

whose medication is technically off label (interferon is approved for Hep C not my illness. That is still in clinical trial stage) and had to fight the insurance company for the right to have this drug. I'm not agaisnt these laws. If you are dying, and there are no other options, why not? Sometimes you can pull off miracles that way. Look at the woman dying of cancer who was saved by the mega dose of the measles vaccine...

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"Right To Try Woo" laws being advocated for... [View all] Archae May 2014 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author xocet May 2014 #1

We used medications that hadn't been through the whole song and dance Warpy May 2014 #2

Speaking as someone TZ May 2014 #3

Exactly, you're not going to get any deader if it doesn't work Warpy May 2014 #4

To be honest... LeftishBrit May 2014 #5

But... Archae May 2014 #6

I think that 'truth in advertising' laws must be enforced for any medical treatments. LeftishBrit May 2014 #7