On 2/15/2015 4:05 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
This also could be considered another salvo *in* the politics of
fear. "/If you *don't* approve on my schedule, the unregulated use
of any given promising technology to relieve my specific
life-threatening condition, you are harming me/".
What I would hope is that regulators would stick to their testing. If
the safety protocols are met, then approve the treatments (like any
other treatment). But don't slow the scheduling of the testing because
people conflate germline and non-germline gene therapy, or just object
because it offends them in some way.
Marcus
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