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Replying to @NineBandedBooks
I think medicine could be a net positive but the processes necessary for that (drug access, data access, fast iteration) are in tension with institutional incentives (liability, gatekeeping)
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Replying to @St_Rev @NineBandedBooks
Basically any medical research regime that *isn't* killing thousands of people a year is killing millions by inaction.
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Replying to @St_Rev @NineBandedBooks
(This is separate from iatrogenic deaths, which the system is fairly successful at hiding.)
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I think such are included in accounts that settle on null or negligible benefit (based on my memory of the relevant discussion in the Hanson/Simler book). Medicine must have been a net detriment until, what, mid-20th century?
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