A Bluesky post
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called “equipoise.”
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That’s specifically why vaccine trials don’t use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
https://subium.com/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3lo4c3g4p222y
Very small nitpick that’s hardly relevant, the Tuskegee experiments didn’t involve vaccines, they told the victims they were being given treatment for the active syphilis they knew they had, not trying to prevent it.