That's…not how the FDA, or science, or medicine works. Antivaxers have no power whatsoever.
Liability is just a cost of doing business.
You ever had D&O insurance? Right now in blockchain businesses some get quoted 10+% for coverage, i.e. 100k+ for 1 mil in coverage. Many simply forego the insurance because it's too expensive, and assume the risk.
The product in question had too little upside to offset the liability, that's all.
You convince a jury that it is unsafe. Happens all the time. There are many reasons this is easier than it should be.
> The product in question had too little upside to offset the liability, that's all.
The vaccine had a ton of upside...for those receiving it. Like most vaccines, it's not a hugely profitable endeavor for the company producing it, so it wasn't worth all of the baloney being thrown around in court.
People do group buys for all sorts of nutraceticals, small molecules, and even some biologics.
Why not? People have pooled-in to try drugs that are in development and not generally available yet. I can recall numerous instances: pitolisant, rintalimod, hyper immune IG, etc
Some went well, some were disasters, it’s the same as any other clinical trial.
[1] https://youtu.be/s_jaU5V9FUg
[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/...
Yes, it was frivolous to many peoples eyes, including mine. McDonald's still serves their coffee at the same temperatures today. They just changed the cups and added warnings at least according to the Wikipedia article on the case.
Stella's coffee was served within the temperature range that was, and still is, recommended by professional coffee associations like SCAA and NCA [1]. The NCA recommends that coffee be held and served at around 180-185 deg F (~80-85 deg C), which is likely near the temperature at which Stella was burned. This is a perfectly reasonable service temperature, widely used by coffee shops, restaurants, and home brewing machines to this day.
Stella Liebeck took her cup of coffee and squeezed it between her legs in order to fiddle with the lid. The result was tragic, but completely expected. If I spill a fresh cup of Starbucks coffee on my crotch today, I fully expect to sustain third-degree burns. So I take a little extra care with it until it has cooled to drinking temperature, which happens pretty quickly.
Tea is generally even hotter. Any good tea shop will serve a pot of freshly boiled water, at least twenty degrees hotter than hot coffee. Spilling that on yourself is guaranteed to melt your skin. Great care is warranted.
Again, what happened to Stella was terrible. She didn't deserve it, and she didn't deserve the hate she got afterward. But she did something really stupid. I sympathize, because I do stupid stuff all the time, and I have the scars to remind me.
We're surrounded by extremely dangerous things that require great care to use properly. It's useful for coffee to be held and served hot, just as it's useful for knives to be sharp and cars to be able to reach highway speeds. There will inevitably be accidents, but making the world completely safe for people who use these things carelessly would mean depriving everyone of their proper use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restau...
Really? You are against holding people liable for faulty products?
The vaccine was approved by the FDA, they did their part making sure it was safe. 100% certainty is impossible, and people should not be held liable to that.
Here, they pulled off their product off not because it was shown to be unsafe but because it was unprofitable. Due to the controversy, it was a tough sell, and lawsuits are costly no matter if you are right or wrong.
Class action against car manufacturer, Toyota, because of 200-400 injuries from airbags? GOOD
Class action against any medical product? BAD until proven otherwise.
It’s like tainted blood transfusions, vioxx, fen-phen, thalidomide just never happened.
I’m guessing the demographics is on the younger and still thinks they are made from steel.
You are arguing with strawman, noone said this.
I bet you also said “3 weeks to flatten the curve!”
The vaccines were working perfectly in that regard until we hit a wall of people unwilling to take them, which brought us in the US to where we are today when antivax lag hampered us from outrunning the delta variant.
Iceland[1], with >70% vaccination rates, is seeing much different outcomes even in spite of record infections.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-covid-su...
If 99% vaccination rate will not achieve herd immunity, what will?
This is misinformation. Israel has the highest vaccination rate in the world. 50% of their new cases are “breakthrough cases”
No, if you check my comment history you will see that I said something along the lines of don't flatten the curve, kill it with longer, harsher lockdowns. Just search for my top downvoted posts. I still maintain that stance, two months of harsh worldwide lockdowns would have killed the spread completely and we would have been completely opened by the middle of last summer. Australia almost managed it alone, and a bit more of the world joining them could have.