The Red Cross doesn’t set that policy, and has actually suggested changing it. They seem to catch a lot of the blame for it, though, which I suppose isn’t surprising considering that they handle pretty much all blood donations in the country.
As Blueberry pointed out below, it’s a governmental policy problem.
Hah! There’s an idea for a major rationalist project: attempting to increase the extent to which governmental regulators of scientific practice are themselves scientific.
The Red Cross doesn’t set that policy, and has actually suggested changing it. They seem to catch a lot of the blame for it, though, which I suppose isn’t surprising considering that they handle pretty much all blood donations in the country.
As Blueberry pointed out below, it’s a governmental policy problem.
Hah! There’s an idea for a major rationalist project: attempting to increase the extent to which governmental regulators of scientific practice are themselves scientific.