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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by jseliger on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:07PM (#7214986)
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.

It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.

This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .

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