[roc]

> can anyone argue that the anti-vaxxers don't have a point when they're on about exactly this sort of profit-driven evil from Big Pharma

Yes; they do not have a point as regards vaccines.

Because vaccines are so essential to public health, they're very closely regulated and monitored by the FDA. Samples from each and every lot of each and every vaccine are passed to CBER and tested (for efficacy, sterility, etc) at several stages of production, and licenses for distribution are granted per lot, based on passing those tests.

The FDA knows exactly what they want from these drugs, what the active agents are and how they work, and how to test for them. They don't accept cleverness or variations. There's essentially no profit in this process and no room for profit.

[ZeroGravitas]

There's also the non-profit-driven evil you need to worry about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

[leoc]

And Guatemala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment . In fact, why not the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...