Yeah, wow, clearly no one has ever thought of that one.
As the adage goes, it’s easy to be a conspiracy theorist when you don’t know how anything works.
If only someone invented control trials.
This administration won’t be happy until dumbass brain worm kills a lot more Americans.
What about placebo required studies for Vitamin A and Cod Liver Oil?
So he wants to expose unvaccinated people to diseases to test the efficacy of vaccines? Sounds ethical and not psychotic at all …
So basically, people will have to smuggle vaccines into the US.
As someone disabled, I have a bad feeling about how they’ll decide which groups of people get the placebo vaccine…
Sigh.
It’s unnecessary. It’s stupid.
But at least it’s not actively harmful, I guess.Edit: Nope, actually, it definitely is.
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Have there been any studies that show placebo effect doesn’t really apply to infectious disease? I would wager that there is one, if not several.
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Wouldn’t the unvaccinated public, exposed in the early days of a pandemic, then be an effective control?
I think it’s more that placebo studies of vaccines could be unethical. Vaccines are preventative treatment. A placebo study would mean that, say, we give the vaccine to 50, and a placebo to 50, and then wait some time (or, for much more unethical, deliberately inject people with the virus), and compare the results.
For something like the common flu, this might be fine, but for something as dangerous as measles, this can be deadly.
I am interested to hear from someone knowlesgeable how vaccines are supposed to be tested.
1: afaik placebos have no effect on vaccines that’s correct, because it’s not something that’s subjective… you either have an infection or you don’t: you can’t think yourself better
2: the way we do efficacy trials is already exactly this: we give trial participants the vaccine and compare their infection rates to known infection rates in the general population that match the demographics of the trial participants as closely as possible
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