vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 days agoRFK Jr. to require placebo-controlled studies for new vaccineswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down12
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minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·edit-26 days agoSigh. It’s unnecessary. It’s stupid. But at least it’s not actively harmful, I guess. Edit: Nope, actually, it definitely is.
minus-squareMegaUltraChicken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·6 days agoI mean, the reason we don’t do this is because it’s unethical to deny people a potentially lifesaving vaccine in place of a placebo when it may just be a small change from a previous vaccine that doesn’t add any more danger. This shit is still going to kill people.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoWhoa, dang. I did not know that. Thank you for the info.
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoAt least he hasn’t outlawed vaccine studies yet
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 days agoRight, see, that’s what I was concerned would happen. The administration is young, though. I mean, they’re definitively not, but like… it’s early in the term.
Sigh.
It’s unnecessary. It’s stupid.
But at least it’s not actively harmful, I guess.Edit: Nope, actually, it definitely is.
I mean, the reason we don’t do this is because it’s unethical to deny people a potentially lifesaving vaccine in place of a placebo when it may just be a small change from a previous vaccine that doesn’t add any more danger.
This shit is still going to kill people.
Whoa, dang. I did not know that.
Thank you for the info.
At least he hasn’t outlawed vaccine studies yet
Right, see, that’s what I was concerned would happen.
The administration is young, though. I mean, they’re definitively not, but like… it’s early in the term.