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I beg people to step outside and look at recent history.

"Why is there byzantine regulation for this particular industry?"

because someone took the piss and killed loads of people. A good example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_...

Where a conman made claims to lure the desperate and gullible.

The Vet case is instructive here. This is to stop suffering in animals.

The same with the people experimenting on themselves. THis is to avoid stuff like Tuskegee Syphilis Study, where unacceptable risks were taken to gain data.

tldr: these regulations are there to stop bad actors killing people for either profit, data or fun. Claiming ignorance as to _why_ these regulations exist is bad research and I would suggest is either incompetence or dishonesty.



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