I mean if you are going to potentially die otherwise then that's one thing. But if you go to the doctor with a sore throat and they hand you some random script for something you've never heard of, hard pass is a pretty good strategy.

The appropriate way to make medical decisions is based on data, but if a drug is still under patent then the data isn't there.

So the day a patent expires the data suddenly appears?

You are right, 50 years is probably smarter, 20 is too little for all the effects to come out.

yep... waiting until 2010 to get vaccinated against measles definitely says “high IQ”

Being an "early adopter" when it comes to non-essential medicine is not too smart either.

Referring to IQ as a stand-in for intelligence is yet another blind alley.