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The FDA has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into the researcher behind one of the strangest medical stories you may hear in some time. It has to do with an experimental herpes vaccine, unconventional research methods, and a lesson in the things desperation can drive people to do. Our cover story is: Short on Time.
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The unorthodox way that Professor Halford went about testing his herpes vaccine— violated nearly every U.S. law and regulation governing human experimentation.
Marisa Taylor: As far as I can tell, the earliest he began experimenting with this vaccine on human beings was 2013.
Sharyl: According to some of the human test subjects here in the United States, he gave them these experimental injections at a Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza Hotel near the university lab?
Marisa Taylor: That is true.
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“Well…I’m not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
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Not even the Flu one, thanks.
Can I give you a dollar tomorrow for a cheeseburger today?
Screw that.
Who needs medical progress when you can have a risk-free world via the all-knowing and all-caring nanny state?
Mediocre bureaucrats who can’t be fired no matter how poorly they do their jobs get to make life changing decisions. The past 40 years are littered with bad choices that managed to run the pricey gauntlet of mediocrity and delay so what good is the gauntlet?
I think of cancer patients with absolutely no further hope and little time and then the FDA refuses to allow an experimental treatment.
Of all we’ve seen lately, it’s hard to trust the judgement of these bureaucrats.
@Page O Turner April 30, 2018 at 8:33 am
“bad choices that managed to run the pricey gauntlet of mediocrity and delay so what good is the gauntlet”
I’ll tak “What is pricey?” for a thousand, Page.
Homie Opath April 30, 2018 at 2:50 am
Not even the Flu one, thanks.
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Me either. I’ve never had the flu and I haven’t had a cold in over 10 years – maybe 15.
i was accepted for a legitimate pain study after a series of xrays and blood draws. Step 2 was MRIs of entire spine, knees, hips and shoulders. Imagine the costs of doing those for every one of their subjects.
I havnt decided to do it yet. Leaning towards no because you never know what you get. The placebo or the real deal.
The “right to try” bill didn’t make it through the senate. It would have given terminally ill people the right to try experimental drugs or procedures under doctor’s care.
But hey! lets spend that effort on giving 7 year old Patty sex ‘altering’ hormones so she can become Patrick, and vending machines for drug addicts.
Nasal cancer? Ouch