Shame! Another front in the libertarian war on the FDA: Rational Vaccines and Peter Thiel ’ s unethical offshore herpes vaccine clinical trial

I've discussed so-called "right-to-try" laws, which promise to speed experimental drugs to terminally ill patients, but which in reality are about weakening and bypassing the FDA. Now über-Libertarian Peter Thiel is trying a new tactic to bypass the FDA by organizing an offshore clinical trial of a new herpes vaccine based on dubious science and not overseen by an IRB to protect patients. Both right-to-try and this trial are different fronts in the same fundamentalist free market war on FDA regulation.
Source: Respectful Insolence - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Bioethics Biology Clinical trials Medicine Politics Agustín Fernández III Balaji Srinivasan Belmont Report Common Rule fda Food and Drug Administration institutional review board Jim O'Neill Peter Thiel Rational Vaccines ri Source Type: blogs