An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.
  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “The bureaucracy is inhibiting the science, and that’s unacceptable to me,” he says. “One week of people dying from not knowing about this is not trivial.”

    Yeah, let’s not wait for proper testing and research. That’s a typical sign that something is very wrong.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If this was presented as an immune-boosting beer, and not a vaccine, way more right wing morons would be likely to take it. I’m pretty sure 3/4 of the antivaxxer right wing, are just men who are afraid to admit that they are afraid of needles.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      As someone who has known a few anti-vax right-wingers, yes. 100% yes.

      It’s almost entirely a fear of being poked with a needle, but they have to do very complicated dances to justify that fear, because they know if they admitted it, even to themselves, that such a immature fear would seem childish and weak, which is even more terrifying than the needle.

      Humans never stop being children. We just develop more layers of complexity around that child, but the child still drives us.

  • Solumbran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So we have vaccines that work and are tested.

    And he’s trying to sell something that is untested, but an alcoholic beverage, which is known to be bad for health.

    Yeah, I’m sure this is not just about money and he actually cares about people’s health.

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It doesn’t really say what the alcohol content is. 0.1% is still an alcoholic beverage. But good luck getting drunk.

      Though I’m not sure if it’s really a beer or just a mead. Making actual beer is a very complex process. Mead on the other hand is so simple anyone can do it.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        it says ale in the article so I don’t think its a mead but sign me up for vacine mead or a nice dessert wine. oooh ooh. cider.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I’m not sure if you know something I don’t, but mead is a fermented honey drink. The process is very similar to making beer (I’ve made both, a lot more beer though). Neither is particularly complex. Anyone can do it if they have a recipe, and even making a recipe isn’t that difficult, if you have the right tools.