I think this is a total hit piece.
"They’re preying on people who are desperate for a vaccine,"
As a contributor (and a scientist) - I don't feel like I've been preyed upon, at all.
"They’re preying on people who are desperate for a vaccine,"
As a contributor (and a scientist) - I don't feel like I've been preyed upon, at all.
Imagine if the pace of medical research moved at the pace of javascript frameworks.
We would all be fucking immortal. There would probably be some mutants though. But you gotta crack some eggs.
We need more open source science!
I agree. You give the kids a PCR machine and suddenly everyone is dead.
Better stop now before it's too late.
It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.
This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .
I'm willing to chance death for perpetual regeneration. No pain, no gain.
If there were offering a cure, then I could see a complaint where they were preying on people with the disease who were desperate for a cure. Since that's not the case, do they mean the contributors, wanting to help develop the vaccine, are desperate, and being preyed upon? Because I hardly think that applies.
And I'd still be pleased as punch if it worked.
I read over the white paper, but honestly, my expertise is way down the road from where you guys are right now.