| ▲ | kylehotchkiss 5 days ago |
| Add on that there is no complete understanding of this system with all the Unknown Unknowns etc and you can see why we should test this stuff better before letting hims.com just disperse it across the american populace |
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| ▲ | moduspol 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Perhaps--though worth keeping in mind that the overwhelming alternative is just lifelong obesity, along with all the negative impacts from that. At least at a societal level, some increased rates of pancreatitis and a little suboptimal muscle loss are peanuts compared to what high obesity rates do to people at scale. |
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| ▲ | jongjong 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes 100%. That's why I never understood the rollout of MRNA vaccines during COVID. It's like pushing a massive code change straight to production during peak traffic and without the normal phased rollout. I totally understand where conspiracy theorists are coming from. That didn't seem right. |
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| ▲ | UniverseHacker 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It made sense to me- they made a risk vs benefit decision under high uncertainty, factoring in the massive harm that the ongoing pandemic was already causing. There had already been 12 years of human clinical trials for other mRNA vaccines, and they still did extensive clinical trials for the new covid vaccine before rolling it out. In hindsight they were exactly right- and they saved at least tens of million of lives by acting quickly[1]. [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9537923/ | |
| ▲ | kylehotchkiss 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | yeah, it's too bad the tech didn't have a better way to gain peoples trust (through some other breakthrough with the normal set of clinical trials). I think the solve was impressive (tell cells to produce a protein that looks exactly the same as the viruses and place it outside the cell to piss off antibodies) but protein-protein interaction data is hard to come by. Maybe these guys can figure it out https://www.aalphabio.com |
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