If that’s what you mean: it seems to me that if someone breaks the law, then taking the legal steps that are generally taken against people who break the law isn’t obviously properly described as “suppressing his efforts”,
Of course laws are supressing people from engaging in certain actions whether or not those laws are desirable laws, laws are supressing.
In this case, it seems that while it’s completely legal for a doctor to brew anything together and give it to their patients it’s not legal to run a clinical trial without registration.
If RaDVaC folks would publish the evidence that they gathered for their vaccine it’s easy to argue that they did run a clinical trial for the vaccine which they seems to desire to avoid. Given that they are not allowed to provide that kind of evidence publically they have to be Straussian about it.
it seems to me unlikely that anyone would bother making laws against unregistered clinical trials if you could work around them simply by having a doctor administer the drugs
There’s a difference between having a doctor administering the drugs and being a doctor administring drugs. Doctors are allowed to give their patient any brew they make but there are rules that regulate the conditions under which you can give a brew to a doctor to administer to his patients. There are some rules that regulate what doctors can do with scheduled substances but those aren’t applicable here.
Secondly, rules for Phase I clinical trials exist for protecting clinical trial participants. They don’t exist to prevent people from doing experiments on themselves and their family.
Saying that a doctor who brews a vaccine for themselves in March and give it to a total of five people he cares about before September is engaged in doing a clinical trial seems to me like a huge stretch.
What algorithm are you proposing they should have executed that would have told them to put time and effort into working with Stöcker but not with dozens of cranks?
If you have a pandemic and a biotech billionaire contacts you with wanting to help you treat him different then dozens of cranks that also want to contact you. Especially if the company they founded helps you with fighting the pandemic (they provide COVID-19 tests).
If you mean that in addition to the RadVac folks’ general argument that their alleged vaccine should be safe and effective, the fact that they have chosen to actually take it is a little bit more evidence, then I guess I agree: but (obviously, I think?) it’s not much further evidence.
Skin in the game is a good way to handle problems of information assymetry and trusting expertise.
Just because a drug is FDA approved doesn’t mean that it has an effect or is safe either. If I saw a FDA official or a Ranbaxy employee telling his doctor to make sure that he gets a brand name drug instead of one from Ranbaxy you can take that as good evidence that made you shouldn’t trust the FDA approved Ranbaxy drug.
Of course laws are supressing people from engaging in certain actions whether or not those laws are desirable laws, laws are supressing.
In this case, it seems that while it’s completely legal for a doctor to brew anything together and give it to their patients it’s not legal to run a clinical trial without registration.
If RaDVaC folks would publish the evidence that they gathered for their vaccine it’s easy to argue that they did run a clinical trial for the vaccine which they seems to desire to avoid. Given that they are not allowed to provide that kind of evidence publically they have to be Straussian about it.
There’s a difference between having a doctor administering the drugs and being a doctor administring drugs. Doctors are allowed to give their patient any brew they make but there are rules that regulate the conditions under which you can give a brew to a doctor to administer to his patients. There are some rules that regulate what doctors can do with scheduled substances but those aren’t applicable here.
Secondly, rules for Phase I clinical trials exist for protecting clinical trial participants. They don’t exist to prevent people from doing experiments on themselves and their family.
Saying that a doctor who brews a vaccine for themselves in March and give it to a total of five people he cares about before September is engaged in doing a clinical trial seems to me like a huge stretch.
If you have a pandemic and a biotech billionaire contacts you with wanting to help you treat him different then dozens of cranks that also want to contact you. Especially if the company they founded helps you with fighting the pandemic (they provide COVID-19 tests).
Skin in the game is a good way to handle problems of information assymetry and trusting expertise.
Just because a drug is FDA approved doesn’t mean that it has an effect or is safe either. If I saw a FDA official or a Ranbaxy employee telling his doctor to make sure that he gets a brand name drug instead of one from Ranbaxy you can take that as good evidence that made you shouldn’t trust the FDA approved Ranbaxy drug.