Farside on Nostr: Something to consider which is rarely talked about. Safety testing is only conducted ...
Something to consider which is rarely talked about.
Safety testing is only conducted on adults because it is considered medically unethical to experiment on children.
We know that a child's immune system is has not fully developed, and it undergoes significant changes as a person matures into adulthood.
We also know that a child's immune system responds differently to an adult's with regard to disease. They will even exhibit different symptoms and physical immune response in many cases.
So we have a group of people, whose immune systems have physiologically different immune systems, that also behave in different ways, but we don't know enough about those differences to accurately predict how this complex system will respond in different situations because the ability to study it is limited.
And we choose to take infants, who are on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of immune system variance compared with adults, and target them for immunization based on an assumption that if it's more or less safe for an adult, then it's equally more or less safe for the infant.
That is terrible science. I would not even call it science.
Safety testing is only conducted on adults because it is considered medically unethical to experiment on children.
We know that a child's immune system is has not fully developed, and it undergoes significant changes as a person matures into adulthood.
We also know that a child's immune system responds differently to an adult's with regard to disease. They will even exhibit different symptoms and physical immune response in many cases.
So we have a group of people, whose immune systems have physiologically different immune systems, that also behave in different ways, but we don't know enough about those differences to accurately predict how this complex system will respond in different situations because the ability to study it is limited.
And we choose to take infants, who are on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of immune system variance compared with adults, and target them for immunization based on an assumption that if it's more or less safe for an adult, then it's equally more or less safe for the infant.
That is terrible science. I would not even call it science.