Windy River
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- Jan 31, 2013
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Well, how do I say this.. I don’t believe that clinical trials are the only ways to determine safety and efficacy. They are one very effective, but also very lengthy process to get there. To have arrived at a vaccine candidate in the first place, requires an indescribable working knowledge of the subject- so far beyond any of our comprehension that I wouldn't dare to say I know anything about it. This knowledge allows study to take place at levels other than raw numbers of large-scale trials. I see a campaign of ‘shielding’ taking place- where western govts/journalists simply dont want the conversation to dare consider the value of this vaccine under any context outside of trial data. This is very telling IMO.The swiftness with which it has been dismissed reeks of sound scientific process of going through phase 1 to 3 of clinical trials instead of just 1 and 2.
Maybe their vaccine is efficient and safe, but right now they have no data to prove it. They are taking a huge risk.
Many of the same hallmark mass-media techniques we see applied to other past topics now known to have been misunderstood and misrepresented are present in the way this is being presented today.
Its a campaign of “this is the way it is, you see because the rules prove it. Any other viewpoint is invalid; they don’t follow our rules thus cannot be taken seriously”.
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