[ExI] drugs and diagnosis

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:44 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Well, as with most things, there's a history here.
>
> Medicine in america /was/ pretty unregulated.
>
> Then in 1932 a major national sports celebrity, Eben Byers, died from
> spending 5 years of chugging so much radium water his skeleton started
> dissolving. He died of, basically, cancer-of-the-everything.
>
> The federal government, which was already in a
> flexing-it's-muscles expansive kind of mood, used the incident to build the
> foundations of our modern medical regulatory state.
>
>
### Government is a low-feedback, slow-acting, self-interested hierarchical
machine, almost always guaranteed to deliver goods and services of lower
quality than the strong-feedback, fast-acting, polycentric and
consumer-oriented truth-finding machine of the market. Medical regulation
is no exception here - if delivered by the FDA it is crude,
behind-the-times and a net harm compared to regulation created directly by
providers and consumers of health care.

Delusional losers will harm themselves no matter what, unless locked up in
an asylum but they are no excuse to put us all in there.

Rafal
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