I take this as a warning to carefully consider ANY medical treatment (especially novel ones) where some corporation stands to benefit hugely.
Scientists, just like politicians, can be corrupted.
Science, particularly “expedited” science, can be manipulated to demonstrate whatever policymakers (and thus lobbyists) want it to show.
There’s one thing that cannot be corrupted - a healthy human body that I keep free of novel interventions.
If I’m on my deathbed and there’s a novel form of immunotherapy that was patented yesterday, then fine, I will try it.
But if I’m healthy, and and I’m offered a novel form of vaccine of an entirely new technology I will question it. Especially if it causes my own healthy cells (including heart, lung, brain and reproductive cells) to express a protein that leads them to be destroyed by my NK cells and cytotoxic T cells.
Now I’m sure there will be a authoritarian minority that will jump on this post and try to remove it, and who will try to remove me from HN. I’m sure you think you’re doing society a good deed. But bear in mind, the suppression of critique of novel technology can also contribute to widespread suspicion about that technology and the people pushing it.
I take this as a warning to carefully consider ANY medical treatment (especially novel ones) where some corporation stands to benefit hugely.
Scientists, just like politicians, can be corrupted.
Science, particularly “expedited” science, can be manipulated to demonstrate whatever policymakers (and thus lobbyists) want it to show.
There’s one thing that cannot be corrupted - a healthy human body that I keep free of novel interventions.
If I’m on my deathbed and there’s a novel form of immunotherapy that was patented yesterday, then fine, I will try it.
But if I’m healthy, and and I’m offered a novel form of vaccine of an entirely new technology I will question it. Especially if it causes my own healthy cells (including heart, lung, brain and reproductive cells) to express a protein that leads them to be destroyed by my NK cells and cytotoxic T cells.
Now I’m sure there will be a authoritarian minority that will jump on this post and try to remove it, and who will try to remove me from HN. I’m sure you think you’re doing society a good deed. But bear in mind, the suppression of critique of novel technology can also contribute to widespread suspicion about that technology and the people pushing it.