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Well-developed vaccines, like every FDA-approved vaccine in the US, are good and save lives. Just trying something some dude (however well-credentialed and int
by curiousllama 6y ago
Well-developed vaccines, like every FDA-approved vaccine in the US, are good and save lives.
Just trying something some dude (however well-credentialed and intelligent) whips up in his lab strikes me as patently absurd. What, you think it’s more likely that this dude just happens to hit on the cure first try than you’ll have an adverse immune response? There’s a reason we test things.
Not to mention - MIT Tech Review publishing this as if it’s legit science is irresponsible. You know why they posted a white paper and not a journal article? Because it’s unpublishable.
We have medical testing processes to avoid accidents, medical misinformation, and snake oil. At a time when all 3 are on the rise, failing to point out the obvious dangers of individual medical experimentation only undermines the actual scientific method. We’re not going to biohack our way to a vaccine.
- foobiekr 6y agoMIT Tech Review Gabe up any real legitimacy years ago. It’s really just a pro-MIT propaganda publication at this point, especially any of the frequent gushing articles about MIT alumni startups.
- partyboat1586 6y agoWe can biohack our way to a vaccine candidate or multiple vaccine candidates. Biohackers have a lot less restrictions so they can work faster and take more risks, if they hit upon something good it just needs larger scale testing and it can be deployed. These will be great starting points of the vaccines currently in human trials fail. I'm sure some bigger BioTech company would happily buy up the IP.
- gus_massa 6y ago> they can work faster and take more risks Let's suppose they are lucky and nobody dies because the prototype of vaccine caused some problem or for an unrelated cause that is wrongly attributed to the prototype of vaccine. How much time is it necessary to make all the trials to prove that the effective and safe? How much time do they save using humans instead of mice for the preliminary tests?
- 1MachineElf 6y ago>Just trying something some dude (however well-credentialed and intelligent) whips up in his lab strikes me as patently absurd. All early vaccines were developed by "some dude in his lab", just look up the history yourself. Not sure why your initial reaction to people trying to innovate is anger.