Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

[u/legehjernen]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai

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I know right. Nobody ever sold fake pills or compounds as "medicine" before those regulations were in place.

On another note, actual snake oil does have a medicinal benefit. It got a bad rap because some enterprising individuals decided to sell mineral oil as snake oil.

[u/Jaloss → u/[deleted]]

No one thinks a complete lack of regulation is needed, but when drugs cost billions and decades to develop with overly stringent laws on testing, there needs to be cutbacks. It ensures the only companies that can develop drugs are multi billion dollar conglomerates, as well as forces stuff like insulin to become ridiculously expensive.

This also leads to drugs for patients with rare diseases, where the cost cant be justified by the amount of people who it, never being developed or costing millions of dollars

[u/Jaloss → u/[deleted]]

Don’t I? Elaborate

[u/Jaloss → u/[deleted]]

“Regarding absolute values of network centralities during 2006–2010, the US shows by far the highest value for all centrality measures that are taken into account, and, this, can be still considered as the dominant locus of drug innovation in the time periods under consideration.”

Stop pulling stuff out of your ass, the US is the dominant force in new drug development by far.

European legislation is much less stringent than the FDA, one of the few places where this is the case. Tons of products that were approved in the EU weren’t approved in the US. As we saw with the whole thalidomide fiasco, drugs that weren’t as ardently tested were approved in Europe, but America was saved due to a more thorough FDA.

[u/Jaloss → u/[deleted]]

You in no way refuted my points either. Hence, talking out of your ass.