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What if a company wants to prey on desperate people who want to do everything to avoid dying, including paying boatloads of money for "experimental" drugs which are just plain old quackery?



Nothing is protecting desperate people from quackery right now either, only from drugs that might actually help.


> What if a company wants to prey on desperate people who want to do everything to avoid dying, including paying boatloads of money for "experimental" drugs

I've interacted with a person from the pharmaceutical world who actually advertised this as their main selling point.




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