For those who need a reminder on why this man is a liar:
Many vaccines ARE, in fact, tested in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. This includes the Salk polio vaccine, the HPV vaccine, the COVID vaccines, and the recent RSV vaccines he’s so bothered about.
The loophole RFK and other anti-vaxxers keep going on about is designed to smear vaccines. In their minds each updated version of an existing vaccine should be re-tested in such a trial as if none existed before. This is unethical for several reasons, two including:
1. This would take forever and in most instances would effectively take the vaccine out of circulation entirely. If we needed to placebo-test the flu shot by the time the test was over the flu itself would have mutated.
2. With effective vaccines, forcing them into limbo while we retest would require actively withholding vaccines from people, including children, and then counting how many got sick and died. This isn’t ethical, nor is it science. It’s monstrous. In these cases active comparator trials, testing the new vaccine against the old one, are just as effective and balance science with the urgent cause of keeping people alive.
RFK knows this but he doesn’t care. He’s not trying to keep people alive. He’s just keeping up appearances for his cult.
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