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To: DaRocksMom
Can you say guinea pig OINK OINK bump
15 posted on 12/19/2001 1:42:01 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
This is my first time on Free Republic. Alas, I may have come in on the wrong thread as this one does not seem completely emblematic of intellectual conservatism at its best.

Anyway, isn't it slightly problematic to accept the benefits of modern medicine while insulting those who have participated in the studies which made it possible, by calling them a name (guinea pig)?

I work in a U.S. government office which gets loads of mail and is, I think, at moderate risk for receipt of a terrorist letter. If it were offered, I would gladly accept the bovine vaccine (never tried on humans except for rare errors, lasts just a year, becomes effective a lot quicker than human vaccine) on an experimental basis, knowing, without reading any silly release, that the personal benefit is iffy. Beyond knowing that I hadn't passively accepted my fate, I would have the additional psychic benefit of feeling myself an active participant in the war against terror. A little more reluctantly, I'd also accept the human vaccine. There is no risk-free medicine.

16 posted on 12/19/2001 4:12:09 PM PST by Steve Eisenberg
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