it's no great conspiracy, it's the normal working of the bureaucratic/legal structure, as any organizational sociologist will gladly tell you: An emergency app

it's no great conspiracy, it's the normal working of the bureaucratic/legal structure, as any organizational sociologist will gladly tell you: An emergency approval of the vaccine was only legal if there are no other working remedies. So, it was legally necessary to certify that there were no other working remedies; so this is where the bureacratic attempts were directed, This directs the legal and business bureaucracy to seek no official confirmation of such an alternative, which means you don't, of course, invest officially in tests that could come to a different conclusion; you invest in those that do (medical tests are famously influencable, but that is for another thread). At the same time, the other remedies remain "unproven" except by evidence presented by doctors who use it, who can be bureaucratically dismissed as "but this is not a proven remedy, and we can't recommend it" - formalspeak, we all know it. Again, not a conspiracy theory by any means, just the normal, sociological workings of organizations we are all familiar with on smaller scales. (Of course, it does require us to dispense with the childish notion that organizations work for nothing but our benefit, with integrity and honesty; of course they don't, none do, but that also doesn't mean they work AGAINST out benefit. At the time, it was understandable to think "we have to help the vaccine get approved, and diversions would cost lives".) The fun part about sociology is that we all have implicit knowledge that this is how organizational bureaucracies work. For some reason, we're also castigated when we say this out loud.