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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by Fomite on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:47PM (#7214113)
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.
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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by jseliger on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:07PM (#7214986)
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.

It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.

This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by toomuchtodo on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:23AM (#7216135)
Unless I've signed on the dotted line and know the risks.

I'm willing to chance death for perpetual regeneration. No pain, no gain.

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by nickthemagicman on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:43PM (#7214621)
Damn bro you're dropping eggs of wisdom on all of us.

I agree. You give the kids a PCR machine and suddenly everyone is dead.

Better stop now before it's too late.

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