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Not OP but from the reports I have read, people who have been given placebos will be informed if the actual vaccine is found be really effective. This is for e
by vmurthy 6y ago
Not OP but from the reports I have read, people who have been given placebos will be informed if the actual vaccine is found be really effective. This is for ethical concerns (in the sense that it would be unethical to not vaccinate people who have got a placebo if the real vaccine is really effective)
- syndacks 6y agoFor some history on the matter of ethics in medical research, the 'Tuskegee Experiments' was among the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history [0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
- vmurthy 6y agoThank you for the refresher. I originally read it https://www.damninteresting.com/bad-blood-in-tuskegee/ https://www.damninteresting.com/bad-blood-in-tuskegee/ and found it depressing :(. The rest of the site is , well, damn interesting :)