Sigh. This is why #RightToTry passed. It's so easy to demagogue and lead people like Mike into reacting like this to criticism and opposition to RTT. https://twitter.com/golfhacker72/status/1001941664540381186 …
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Of course, reactions like those of Mike are, of course, why so few medical professional societies, cancer centers, and academic medical centers were willing to oppose
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#RightToTry gets people like Mike accusing you of being heartless, evil (Satan!), and of actually wanting children to die—oh, and also being a shill for big pharma. https://twitter.com/GolfHacker72/status/1002622670658301952 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
And of wanting to suppress cannabis, which is an assumption on his part that presumes facts not in evidence. https://twitter.com/GolfHacker72/status/1002623200218542080 …
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You know, repeatedly calling me "evil" and "Satan" is usually a reason for me just to block someone and move on. However, tolerating a
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That is actually the most ludicrous thing you've said. My paycheck, such as it is, does not depend on administering chemotherapy or other drugs. I'm a surgeon, and most terminally ill patients are not surgical candidates—for obvious reasons.
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1/2: If we use marijuana medically then it also becomes big pharma. Do you not realize that in order for it to work medicinally it needs to be studied, synthesized, etc. The marijuana industry is/will be as big as the pharma industry. That argument is invalid.
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There's this frustrating conflation omnipresent in coverage of the issue: that without right to try, access to experimental therapy doesn't exist.
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