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Only works for treatments that go after the terminally ill, who already have massive issues. What if it is a vaccine against cancer (such as the HPV one)? You
by pinaceae 11y ago
Only works for treatments that go after the terminally ill, who already have massive issues.
What if it is a vaccine against cancer (such as the HPV one)?
You think a sane parent would offer their healthy child for a drug trial? You'd need the fucking Nazis to accomplish this (they did, see Mengele et al).
"ethically repulsive but from a consequentialist point of view" or just plain crazy.
- tominous 11y agoYou'll note I'm proposing this accelerated approach only for terminally ill volunteers, not healthy children. I haven't edited my comment. Strangely enough, we already test vaccines and other drugs on healthy volunteers.
- blaurenceclark 11y agoYup! And they get paid (sometimes well) to be vaccine trial participants I believe