On: Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

[icebraining]

You mean, like the right-to-try laws that have been passed by 25 US states, allowing doctors to prescribe drugs not yet approved by the FDA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law

[Manishearth → icebraining]

You still need a different form of FDA approval possibly involving animal trials (among other things) before getting "experimental drug" status.

[wildmusings → Manishearth]

It's ridiculous that if I'm dying, I'm not free to use whatever experimental, theoretical, long-shot treatment that I damn well want.