Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events In 2007, Eugene Volokh, the host of this site, published an essay in the Harvard Law Review titled ” Medical Self-Defense, Prohibited Experimental Therapies, and Payment for Organs ” in which he argued that the government should need “a very good reason” to prevent sick people from saving their own lives. That insight impels the Right to Try movement, which seeks to give terminally ill patients the right to try drugs that show promise but not have received FDA approval and which has received sympathetic hearings from President Trump and Vice President Pence .