That is the point of clinical trials. No treatment can be released until it has been verified to be safe.
>I'm not saying it won't work and isn't worth a large scale trial, I'm just saying your arguments based on evolutionary theory aren't a sound basis for medicine.
I never said it was a sound basis in it's current form. It's a sound basis to move forward rapidly to change the current theory into a sound basis.
> I would not take a tapeworm into me on the grounds that someday tapeworms might evolve into a symbiotic relationship with humans.
one average guy who literally did the opposite of you. Against all medical advice, he infected himself with hookworms:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/23/parasit...
podcast on the same guy who infected himself with hookworms: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/404/enemy-camp-2010/act-thr...
The innovative risk takers are the ones that try things out and move things forward. I'm not recommending you become one, but I recommend you support people who have the drive and willingness to do this because you and I only stand to benefit.
Whether or not the host is destroyed, that symbiosis is the end game is not reassuring to someone whose mouth has gotten worse as a result of the treatment.
I'm not saying it won't work and isn't worth a large scale trial, I'm just saying your arguments based on evolutionary theory aren't a sound basis for medicine. I would not take a tapeworm into me on the grounds that someday tapeworms might evolve into a symbiotic relationship with humans.