Trump's first term was a disaster due to how unprepared he was to lead the country.
This second term will be a disaster of much greater proportions for the opposite reason.
As a former CIA case officer, I saw the men and women of the U.S. intelligence community put their lives on the line every day for this country — and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to lead DNI. (1/3)
@viswanath_pilla@anishmoonka Bacteriophages lost out because of the rise of antibiotics, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the lack of controlled studies.
Georgia (the country) continued developing them through the Eliava Institute.
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@HajoKremer@RogerSeheult Spare me the rhetorical nonsense.
There are mountains of published studies and armies of researchers working on viruses for decades.
If you think that all of these people are either mistaken or have managed to keep a conspiracy secret, then you need therapy.
@HajoKremer@RogerSeheult Before Twitter, parasites such as yourself would bother only neighbors with their uneducated, pathetic speculations.
Now we all have to suffer this idiocy. I wish your phone and computer terrible viruses whose existence that you can speculate about quietly.
@AileneEula98961@AaronSiriSG The goal is safety and efficacy of the active ingredient.
If the vehicle's components have known qualities - which they do - then the aim is to establish that the active ingredient itself is causing a specific effect.
How would you do that with saline?
At this point, Americans should be questioning whether Hegseth is a foreign asset, because this is something only an adversary would dream up.
Who would need an engineered virus when you can just hit them with regular flu?
This is what happens when you have an attorney who thinks they understand the meaning of a placebo - and he clearly does not. So let us address this silly man's concerns.
The Salk polio vaccine trial did not use “plain saline” in every arm because the goal was not to create a metaphysical definition of “nothing”—it was to match the experience of injection so that outcomes weren’t biased by who got a shot and who didn’t.
So yes, the control injection contained the vehicle—the same background solution used to deliver the vaccine—without the active poliovirus antigen. That’s how you isolate the effect of the vaccine itself.
Calling that “not a placebo” is like claiming a sugar pill isn’t a placebo because it contains sugar.
The ingredients being waved around—culture medium, trace antibiotics, stabilizers—were non-active components, included to mirror the injection environment. They are not the intervention. They are the baseline.
And here’s the part that ruins the conspiracy:
The trial involved over a million children and showed a clear, dramatic reduction in paralytic polio in the vaccinated group. Not subtle. Not arguable.
Follow that with real-world data and the result is unmistakable: polio cases collapsed.
If this were some grand deception built on a “fake placebo,” it would have fallen apart the moment the vaccine hit the real world.
Instead, it eradicated a disease.
Or to put it plainly: when someone argues that a controlled trial isn’t controlled because the control wasn’t philosophically pure enough, they’re not doing science, they are not understanding science, and they do not know the meaning of a placebo.
Yes, this was not saline - but it was a placebo. Yes this is just as good as a saline control and this is the issue - Siri has no idea what a placebo is and if he thinks saline is a placebo then it shows why lawyers should take some basic science