Because politicians in high places say so. This is what happens when lawyers politicians interfere with scrupulous science. This is why you should be very afraid of government controlled health care. Politics will always trump science.
All evidence seems to suggest that political meddling managed to trump science in this case - putting the lives of 2000 study subjects at risk, without any likely benefit to them or medicine.
I had a patient once who sweared by chelation therapy for his coronary artery disease. All I could do was nod my head, uh huh uh huh, and smile. He couldn't understand why the clinic got shut down.
2 Outbursts:
Let me beat frank drackman to it by saying:
Gosh happy, you're complaining about this but you don't know CPR? You only went over to your nursing station to coordinate care? GOSH DAMNIT YOU ARE A HORRIBLE DOCTOR AND I AM THE BEST
- Frank Wannabe
A *nurse* in the hospital told me after my spine surgery that I just needed chelation to clear out all the heavy metals in my body--that would magically repair functional damage somehow. No, thanks; I don't want to die!
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