As regards the neurosurgeon I mentioned, I worked with a neurosurgeon who's office was next door to the "experimental" neurosurgeon. I think what he is doing is criminal. He is giving false hope to those who have no chance of being cured, in order to exploit their false hopes "for the good of science".   He and the hospital just don't tell the patients and their families that. Sure, they go through the "informed consenst" dance. But it doesn't change the dynamic of the beliefs of the patients and their loved ones that this might be the magic bullet cure, and the beliefs of the doctor and the medical establishment that exploits those patients in the name of medical science and research.

There is no doubt that these exploited patients and their loved ones are put through much more suffering and pain than they would if the medical establishment cared about and had compassion for them, rather than viewed them as guinea pigs for their research and fodder for their publications. This neurosurgeon is a highly respected (in medical circles) man. Published in all the best journals. An expert in the field. Wealthy beyond most of our wildest imaginations.

He isn't much better than the so-called doctors involved in Nazi medical experiments in the concentration camps, IMO.