[snapcaster]

Yeah putting myself in the shoes of someone with this disease or a loved one with this disease I would be so incredibly angry that we weren't allowed to try something when the alternative is certain death

[kulahan]

There is a lot of money to be made selling snake oil to the desperate, so we definitely want regulation…

[DennisP]

So don't let people sell the drugs at a profit, at early stages.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I think you could mitigate some of the problems by making the drug company pay for the treatment before approval.

[reg_dunlop]

It's the prisoner's dilemma. Or more succinctly:

Take something and possibly live, or take nothing and certainly die.

[bobbylarrybobby]

That's not what the prisoner’s dilemma is.