https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1855182600093995139
They're talking about this amazing event in the history of ethics where a woman curing her own breast cancer was considered unethical for ??? reasons. https://t.co/iK2cvDbPzX pic.twitter.com/kzOphUx1zi
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) November 9, 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03647-0
In choosing to self-experiment, Halassy joins a long line of scientists who have participated in this under-the-radar, stigmatized and ethically fraught practice. "It took a brave editor to publish the report," says Halassy.
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i mean i guess.. otherwise you'd just have psychopaths convincing people to try experimental shit under the guise of self administration
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It's not even about that.
The main issue with what these people are doing is that they're doing it with modified viruses but have no containment protocols.
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Weird how he doesn't mention virus leaks. Their only concern is that The Blob of academic bureaucracy lost control. What would happen to those cushy email jobs if scientists didn't have to jump through hoops to do research?
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Oh I know, this journo is obvious r-slurred (inb4 "but you repeat yourself")
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!ZeroCovidCommunity
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i mean what's the worst that can happen
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You could contaminate a city's water supply with super GRIDS
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Cool it with the transphobia
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Getting someone else to be a test subject for your experimental procedure is not self administration by definition, r-slur.
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that's why i said "under the guise" you dumb twink
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Just take literally 15 seconds to think about how that would work in practice and ask yourself why scientists willing and able to go to those lengths wouldn't do the same (or already be doing so) "under the guise of" ANY already legal or ethically accepted framework.
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Because self-experimentation lets you avoid an ethics board review of your planned research
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Careful rule #11
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we have rules?
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We all have rules.
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China best. Taiwan sink into sea thanks to Xi.
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What if someone self-experiments with ibuprofen and cures Corona?
Or God forbid, they self experiment with mood drugs on
s and cure gender dysphoria?
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Wasn't there some rightoid memepost going around about curing homosexuality with ivermectin?
Edit: Found it, thanks to Yandex
https://scored.co/c/ConsumeProduct/p/15JAqWnttD/homosexuality-is-caused-by-paras/c/
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We have a cure for gender dysphoria already.
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touching grass.
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No not
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Lemme inject myself with super masculinizing virus, then having s*x with a mid foid to see what happens
It was self administration because she initiated it!
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