Re:The illusion of evidence based medicine
by fabian2k on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:47PM
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It took 4 years for thalidomide until it was removed from the market. And this is the text book case that triggered more stringent regulation for drugs.
> The subtle and possibly long term ones are still unknown
So just say you won't take it and be done, because there is no mechanism that can satisfy you.
Re:The illusion of evidence based medicine
by simonh on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:39PM
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Thalidomide isn’t a vaccine so that hardly seems relevant. We have extensive experience with many vaccines across huge populations and no reason to expect these ones to be any more dangerous than the others. Also it seems somewhat unlikely that any possible side effects, if they were to manifest, could possibly be as bad as millions of deaths and tens of millions with long term complications .
The vast majority of people objecting to covid vaccines have no history of vaccine denial, and no good reason to suspect the covid vaccines are particularly dangerous compared to the many vaccines they have accepted previously without a thought or any interest in their history, testing or method of action. It’s politically motivated from start to finish and has nothing to do with the medical facts.
There's a major caveat here, sudden and obvious adverse effects are rare. The subtle and possibly long term ones are still unknown. It took some 5-10 years before Thalidomide was found to cause severe birth defects, for example.