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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by timr on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:20PM (#29355322)
All drug studies are public policy studies.

If you show that a drug works in a petri dish, that's completely irrelevant if it's so toxic that people don't take it because of side-effects.

If you show that full-face respirators work on a mannequin in a box, that's completely irrelevant if real-world people don't wear full-face respirators because they suck.

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by actually_a_dog on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:21PM (#29355329)
> If you show that a drug works in a petri dish, that's completely irrelevant if it's so toxic that people don't take it.

> If you show that full-face respirators work on a mannequin in a box, that's completely irrelevant if real-world people don't wear full-face respirators because they suck.

And these examples are straw men. That's completely irrelevant to the point.