Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
by jMyles on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:05AM
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I generally agree with your comment, but
> That said I trust that the government agencies know what they are doing here.
If 2020 didn't finally shatter that trust, is there anything that can? FDA was already obviously a regulatory capture vehicle for pharma. And CDC got nearly everything wrong in the ebola outbreak of 2014. Then, both of them blundered their way through this pandemic.
For example, we know from the email leaks that FDA felt it was under pressure from Trump to approve vaccines[0], and then never disclosed this fact to the public. That doesn't seem like dispassionate science and expertise to me.
By contrast, many of the medical journals, preprint houses, and academic institutions have looked like far more stable sources of knowledge.
It seems to me that the internet age asks us to replace our state institutions of expertise with something more thoughtful and genuinely connected to science.
> That said I trust that the government agencies know what they are doing here.
If 2020 didn't finally shatter that trust, is there anything that can? FDA was already obviously a regulatory capture vehicle for pharma. And CDC got nearly everything wrong in the ebola outbreak of 2014. Then, both of them blundered their way through this pandemic.
For example, we know from the email leaks that FDA felt it was under pressure from Trump to approve vaccines[0], and then never disclosed this fact to the public. That doesn't seem like dispassionate science and expertise to me.
By contrast, many of the medical journals, preprint houses, and academic institutions have looked like far more stable sources of knowledge.
It seems to me that the internet age asks us to replace our state institutions of expertise with something more thoughtful and genuinely connected to science.
0: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627