ZERO reason for a mass inoculation campaign to include placebo lots
Actually it makes sense for ANY medicine given to everybody have some amount of placebos.
You can't run a trial for a whole lifetime to find some weird interaction because people need medicine now not in 100 years. You have to run it live in the herd and people can't know if they got placebo as that may affect their results.
You especially want placebos in an experimental new technology with no long-term data.
If some of mRNA vaccines were secretly placebos that would be maybe the most responsible thing drug companies did in the whole affair. The actual problem is if they aren't doing this with measles vaccines and everything else given to everybody.
edit: notice below how there's no answer to the question of how you determine harm in medicine given to everybody other than with placebo.
ZERO reason for a mass inoculation campaign to include placebo lots
Actually it makes sense for ANY medicine given to everybody have some amount of placebos.
You can't run a trial for a whole lifetime to find some weird interaction because people need medicine now not in 100 years. You have to run it live in the herd and people can't know if they got placebo as that may affect their results.
You especially want placebos in an experimental new technology with no long-term data.
If some of mRNA vaccines were secretly placebos that would be maybe the most responsible thing drug companies did in the whole affair. The actual problem is if they aren't doing this with measles vaccines and everything else given to everybody.
ZERO reason for a mass inoculation campaign to include placebo lots
Actually it makes sense for ANY medicine given to everybody have some amount of placebos.
You can't run a trial for a whole lifetime to find some weird interaction because people need medicine now not in 100 years. You have to run it live in the herd and people can't know if they got placebo as that may affect their results.
You especially want placebos in an experimental new technology with no long-term data.
If some of mRNA vaccines were secretly placebos that would be maybe the most responsible thing drug companies did in the whole affair. They actual problem is if they aren't doing this with measles vaccines and everything else given to everybody.