A Bluesky post
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called “equipoise.”
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That’s specifically why vaccine trials don’t use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
https://subium.com/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3lo4c3g4p222y
I was half-tempted to xpost it in c/philosophy but I already xposted it in c/doomer. What a fucking reality.