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Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t... by dnautics on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:20PM (#7098468)

Note how I used the plural vaccines. Sabin's vaccine was also unpatented.

Also your objection "Testing on children who may not have the ability to give informed consent is unethical." is nonsense. Polio is a fundamentally childhood disease. Not developing a drug that saves children (but not adults) because children cannot give 'informed consent' is unethical, too. If you think there aren't childhood diseases that we are trying to cure in the contemporary era, you are crazy.

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Re:Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available t... by ganeumann on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:34PM (#7098586)

And he did all of his initial human testing outside of the US--mainly in the USSR and Eastern Europe. I think the idea that the cost of testing has changed is still valid.

What I meant--but articulated poorly--was that the children selected for the tests were from a school for the differently abled because they were, at the time, seen as less valuable. That idea is no longer acceptable.

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