“You” lot are taking over here again almost you know without Birdie around like the security guard at the entrance to the supermarket and the new big bad Wolf in town to cut you (me too) all down.
The actual trials ongoing for the vaccine, it was suggested it was unethical to continue.
But what would happen if they told the world, okay the safety data was due by later next year, by which time everybody in the world will have been encouraged to use a light word, to take 3 or more.
However, we decided there’s no point continuing with the safety trials because we don’t actually have a control group for comparison.
We just have allotments of rats, all received the actual vaccine, to observe and see what we can learn from that.
We don’t usually, or science doesn’t, do things like this. So we should just stop really.
But we will still likely learn a lot from continuing the trials and observation. It just won’t be oriented around safety, so we’ll be unable to really discuss that, come the end of it, as we usually would, in relation to this trial.
But if we just admit we fluffed up the control might as well take a half day it’s raining now anyway…
There would be uproar! What! No safety trials! Oh, you are still doing them it’s okay, there just isn’t a control and you won’t be able to draw any solid conclusions or make reliable announcements about safety.
Phew. I thought you were going to say you were going to just stop the flawed trial now.
It’s much more than a matter of ethics, IMO, but that does come into it.
Let’s say I bite the carrot of X thousand pounds to take part in such a trial.
I sign a disclaimer going into it. Okay, it’s Russian Roulette I understand that, I choose to accept the risk and take the responsibility for handsome reward, you just need me to pull the trigger a few times right?
I might enter the trial under the impression only 4 of the 6 Chambers are loaded.
So that has to enter my own assessment of the risk. Those would be the terms I entered and agreed upon, surely written in the contract (though I expect not in this case).
Turns out though every Chamber is loaded. Oh well it just ensures I will be an actual test subject, I already had a 66.66666% chance right I’ll just let it go.
I might want some extra cash for it though. Risk compensation.
That is what comes to my own mind when I bring ethics into this facade of a safety trial.
Golly this is so much easier without Birdie on hand to refute us all down lol.
Where’s Krinks?
