Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Arthur Diamond
“Tim Friede let venomous snakes bite him roughly 200 times, suffering anaphylactic shocks, and spending four days hospitalized in a coma. But this wasn’t a suicide attempt. He was seeking immunity to all snake venom, so that his blood could be used to create a universal antitoxin. … The FDA does not ban people from letting snakes bite them, so Friede had the freedom to be bitten. His choice was focused on the greater good, as was Jonas Salk’s choice to test his polio vaccine on himself and his family, and as was the choice of over 38,000 volunteers who signed up for Covid ‘human challenge trials,’ which would have involved taking an experimental vaccine and then being deliberately exposed to Covid. If such trials had been allowed, we could have had safe and effective vaccines much sooner, saving many lives.” (08/18/25)
https://fee.org/articles/one-mans-poison-is-another-mans-cure/