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As another commenter already pointed out, ethical standards are quite a novel concept in the history, newer than these cases (and by the way, there are way more such failures in medical history, Theranos being a very minor one). Anyway, pointing out malpraxis is by no definition equivalent to conspiracy theories and I refuse to accept this strawman of moral equivalence.

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It's a novel concept in history that it is wrong to knowingly poison people?

I don't believe you.

GP talked about ethical standards. Poisoning a few people for the "greater good" might be an acceptable thing depending on your standards.

>Poisoning a few people for the "greater good" might be an acceptable thing depending on your standards.

that still constitutes an ethical standard, albeit a weak one.

From looking around at the opposition to chemical industry regulations, it seems that knowingly poisoning people still isn’t considered wrong.

Also look to the FDA "generally considered safe" statements for food additives. Some of them have loads of papers linking them to health problems of various sorts. But banning them would upset donors. I'm surprised trans fats were ever banned. I wonder if there is a deeper story there or if it just got too much publicity too fast to stop it. I wonder if erythritol will get cut too, that study needs some replication though I think?

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