cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4774146

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