Thank you for bringing this up, an really thank you for the more detailed explanation (respectfully snipped).Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:05 am
One of Kennedy's filthy perversions is his claim that modern vaccines have not been tested in clinical trials against inactive placebos. Pedantically this might be correct, and I have often heard professionals who should be more precise talking about the control arm of a clinical trial as "placebo" But a clinical trial does not ask "is this new treatment better than doing no treatment?"; rather, it asks "is this new treatment better than our current standard of care?"
This. Drives. Me. Mad. I know enough to know that the "has never been tested against X" talking point is crap that has nothing to do with how vaccines are developed, but hearing more detail is wonderful.
I only wish the media, who are, granted, overwhelmed by the gish gallop, would push back when this type of argument is made by these heartless grifters. Variations of this crap were big in the early COVID vaxx days. Friends would worriedly say to me, "But it hasn't been tested against a PLACEBO!!!" JHK. More recently I've had friends who are vaxxed say to me, "I don't want to get the booster because they haven't tested it." If the answers to simple concerns were not being overwhelmed by the garbage that the neo-fascists are putting out as fast as they can, people would have more confidence. And fucking DIE less frequently.