Posted on 11/05/2014 9:22:05 AM PST by Diogenesis
Just because they got Ebola does not give the FDA the right to make them guinea pigs.
You know damn well, this is meant for the soldiers and it was ALWAYS Obama’s intention when he sent them.
How many US patients have received placebos so far?
If not, why not?
Ping.
This is an abomination. People who think this way do not value human life. Placebos for ebola? How can they even consider the idea?
This is wrong.
Is Edward Cox going to volunteer to expose himself to ebola then take a placebo?
IF not, he should shut the heck up.
How about this?
All around the group who gets the vaccine will be your control group: those who do not. No placebo necessary. Compare those stats and if there isn't a significant difference the vaccine didn't work.
Nope. That is entirely contrary to testing protocols - when a cure turns up it is not only unethical but illegal to deny it to the control group. The FDA needs to review its own rules.
This will be called racist.
You do not recognize the risk of not having a control group for testing a new treatment. There is a big chance that the experimental treatment does nothing and the patient recovers by their own immune response. If you do not have a control ineffective treatments get commercialized and then the damage is from the assumption that it is going to help.
How many have recovered without experimental treatment? Of those who survive almost all had no treatment other than palliative - fluids and nutrition.
You do a disservice to those who volunteer for clinical trials by calling them pigs or rodents.
A double blind study is the only way to determine a drug’s effectiveness.
Mortality rates for palliative treatment for ebola are already known and well documented.
“Quotas” will be worked into who lives and who dies.
In my opinion, this plan is EVIL because there is already
a large historic control which is near 95% death rate,
for those over 45 years old, and with n~14,000.
Any differential in survival will be immediately
clinically obvious.
Unless, the plan (which it appears to be) is to introduce
this into the American heartland forever.
I think there is already extensive evidence that the controls, or untreated, are dying at a rate of 70%.
I have a relative that was in a trial for some drug for a while. He was taking the drug to begin with, before being asked to participate in the trial.
He knew he had the placebo in the trial because it didn't cut/break in half the same way as the real stuff.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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