Comments on: Human Challenge Trials aren’t riskier than Randomized Controlled Trials https://www.isegoria.net/2024/11/human-challenge-trials-arent-riskier-than-randomized-controlled-trials/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: McChuck https://www.isegoria.net/2024/11/human-challenge-trials-arent-riskier-than-randomized-controlled-trials/comment-page-1/#comment-3721321 McChuck Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:17:49 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52277#comment-3721321 Perhaps Mr. Tabarrok should volunteer himself for the next Ebola vaccine trial? After all, it’s “safer” than waiting for some poor village to contract it naturally. And it’s for “the greater good”.

Doctor Mengele had this same belief, and the political apparatus to act upon it. We still use his medical data, so what he did must have been ethical, good, and morally right, wasn’t it?

]]> By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2024/11/human-challenge-trials-arent-riskier-than-randomized-controlled-trials/comment-page-1/#comment-3721242 T. Beholder Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:42:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52277#comment-3721242 So many of this. Starts sensible, then veers into ”utilitarianism good, personal responsibility bad”.

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