> P.S. If an analogy helps you, think about how music piracy ended up giving us Spotify, and how it had to come from Europe to break into the US market, and how it blocked Americans to avoid getting shut down in its early days.
I don't think you understand that if 20,000 diabetics die because they are banned from effective treatment, DIY treatments save 5,000 of them, and 500 of those 5,000 have a negative effect, then it is a big improvement in overall national health, even though a 10% failure rate is horrifying.
The article you linked about one drug in West Germany does not take into account the overall benefit to health of learning that information and allowing more beneficial drugs to also enter the market quickly.
You could quibble about the numbers but it's important to understand the principle before doing so.
If evidence helps, let's talk about Thalidomide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
Hacking doesn't always produce a positive result. Who is going to take responsibility for the negative results?