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If a policeman breaks into your house without a warrant it's illegal even if he is right and you are a criminal. Procedures have to be followed.

• vkou 5y ago
  Most legal systems do not agree with you. Fruit of the poisoned tree is a peculiarly American legal abberation, and even in the United States, it is not applicable in many cases. Most ethical and legal systems around the world, in fact, would use that evidence to both convict the criminal, and then independently recommend separate sanctions for breaking procedures. But we're not even talking about ethics or legality, here. We are talking about knowledge. People claim that we don't know about the safety of vaccines because we don't have data on trials conducted on thousands of people. ... Yet we have data about vaccines administered to billions of people. Why don't those critics look at that data, instead? It's because knowledge and fact-finding isn't the point of that complaint. The people asking about this don't actually care about having a data-driven argument about the safety or efficacy of vaccines, they just found a procedural problem, that they can play a political game with. The politics is the entire point.