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Some worries are justified, why doesn't a startup want to come with a solution to the actual vaccine that has lots of side effects because of all the adjuvants

by givan 14y ago

Some worries are justified, why doesn't a startup want to come with a solution to the actual vaccine that has lots of side effects because of all the adjuvants like mercury? Is sad that facebook and instagram are the examples that most want to follow instead of making startups that have goals that can really help society.

jfb 14y ago
Because virology is not a zero-capital business? Too, it can't be learned to any usefully significant degree by reading Microbiology for Dummies and watching Khan Academy videos?
- eckyptang 14y ago
  I think you managed to sum up the ignorance of startup culture nicely there.
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  I believe it's also somewhat regulated by the government- we don't allow just anybody to play around with polio in their lab.
lysol 14y ago
Because the real side effects are almost negligible compared to the diseases they prevent.
- justatdotin 14y ago
  ... for high enough values of 'almost negligible'
  - sliverstorm 14y ago
    How much do you know about the various diseases that are vaccinated against? Rabies, for example? Before treatments were developed, rabies had an essentially 100% mortality rate. (Though I believe the rabies vaccine is usually administered to animals, rather than humans) How about smallpox? Historically, ~30% mortality. I don't know about you, but I've never heard of vaccines causing 30% mortality.
    - maxerickson 14y ago
      The vaccine is the treatment for human exposure to rabies. Animal vaccination is used to reduce the prevalence of the virus. The virus moves slowly, so the vaccination is able to prompt an immune response before the infection becomes severe.
- justatdotin 14y ago
  ... for high enough values of 'almost negligible'
dalke 14y ago
Because those adjuvant don't have the side effects you think they do? Because mercury is mostly removed from US vaccines, excepting a couple of types, and has been for a decade?

by givan 14y ago

jfb 14y ago

Because virology is not a zero-capital business? Too, it can't be learned to any usefully significant degree by reading Microbiology for Dummies and watching Khan Academy videos?

eckyptang 14y ago
I think you managed to sum up the ignorance of startup culture nicely there.
sliverstorm 14y ago
I believe it's also somewhat regulated by the government- we don't allow just anybody to play around with polio in their lab.

lysol 14y ago

Because the real side effects are almost negligible compared to the diseases they prevent.

justatdotin 14y ago
... for high enough values of 'almost negligible'
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  How much do you know about the various diseases that are vaccinated against? Rabies, for example? Before treatments were developed, rabies had an essentially 100% mortality rate. (Though I believe the rabies vaccine is usually administered to animals, rather than humans) How about smallpox? Historically, ~30% mortality. I don't know about you, but I've never heard of vaccines causing 30% mortality.
  - maxerickson 14y ago
    The vaccine is the treatment for human exposure to rabies. Animal vaccination is used to reduce the prevalence of the virus. The virus moves slowly, so the vaccination is able to prompt an immune response before the infection becomes severe.
justatdotin 14y ago
... for high enough values of 'almost negligible'

dalke 14y ago

Because those adjuvant don't have the side effects you think they do? Because mercury is mostly removed from US vaccines, excepting a couple of types, and has been for a decade?