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[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How is it that any potential cure for actual diseases and illnesses needs an insane amount of data only able to be collected by jumping through hoops before the FDA will let it be used anywhere ever, but these uses for dugs and surgery are encouraged without any evidence that it does any good or does no harm?

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hell, one of my cats would probably benefit from feline interferon, available in Canada and Europe, but not approved in the U.S. My vet looked into it for me and said that while I might be able to buy it from Canada and administer it myself, they couldn't get involved for legal reasons.

But yeah, walk into Planned Parenthood, tell them you're a girl who wants to be a boy, and they'll get you on testosterone ASAP.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They claim the widespread use of experimental drugs is "evidence" but they never want to follow up on the actual results.

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Take kid with healthy bodies, but who have mental health problems. Give them drugs they don't need that probably won't fix the mental health issues. What could possibly go wrong?