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If you ever did this at a pharma company you’d find yourself without a job pretty quickly.

When it comes to proper testing, drug companies tend to stick to the rules lest they incur the wrath of the FDA. The FDA won’t think it’s bold when employees start testing on themselves.

Plus, R&D folks gets to hear all the stories of side effects in lab animals like necrosis of the testicles and such. Tends to give cowboys 2nd thought to self-testing.



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