It seems China is repeating similar mistakes the western world did in the 20th century (e.g. psychosurgery, very weak regulations). It's like watching a car seconds before crash and you can't do anything to stop it.

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squidbeak 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The article explicitly states:

> The rapid adoption, in the absence of hard evidence, prompted Chinese regulators to intervene. Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings, rather than the ad hoc use that had proliferated previously. And Xie, the pioneer of the technique, has been in detention since September for undisclosed reasons.

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idiotsecant 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is probably also some benefit to being willing to let some harm come to patients in order to quickly determine if treatments are viable or not. Western medicine puts a premium on human life but development of treatments is certainly slowed by that ethos .

	▲	siva7 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It puts a "premium" on life only because all those regulations were written with blood from those who can't defend themselves anymore as those same arguments were used back then as they are today.
	▲	fyltr 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Western medicine has been lax on ethos and rigor in the past and we ended up exterminating and neutering large amounts of the population to 'keep the genetic heritage pure'. That is still a major traumatism that forces us to approach medicine with a very strong ethos.

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FooBarWidget 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> very weak regulations

Seems you missed out on 10-15 years of development. Regulation strictness these days rival western.

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u8080 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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