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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

The other 5 (including the 2 vision board bitches) get a shot of water that looks like the vaccine. And because it’s mother fucking Ebola, I lock these infected ass bitches in a room for a week and drop food in like silence of the lambs. What are you? A size 14?

may 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 134 3

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From Neptune @r-bear.bsky.social

That's what the wellness camps and autism registry is for. That's the bitches that will get punched with eradicated diseases and get water for it.

may 2, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

I come back a week later to check my results. Of the 5 that got the vaccine, 3 lived but looked like shit and 2 died. I’ll pour out some for them later. Of the 5 that got the placebo (water) they all fucking ded! And that right there is why we don’t use placebo groups for god damn vaccines!

may 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 263 21 • view
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Elke Pattyn @elkenumber1.bsky.social

Oh you pour so eloquently in words what every person with half a brain was thinking! Thank you.

may 4, 2025, 10:35 am • 2 0 • view
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botherme.bsky.social @botherme.bsky.social

Can I just say I adore your salty fucking ass? 😆

may 2, 2025, 8:20 pm • 11 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

Fucking thanks. You’re cool to

may 2, 2025, 8:21 pm • 8 0 • view
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info

I believe the word you were looking for was “equipoise”

may 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 39 1 • view
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lynn0908.bsky.social @lynn0908.bsky.social

NIH coming to the rescue 😄

may 3, 2025, 12:03 am • 5 0 • view
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Mike Schwartz @itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social

If it's Ebola, you'll pour the ones that died out later.

may 2, 2025, 5:23 pm • 16 0 • view
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A More Civil Place @kschok.bsky.social

This is the best fucking explainer EVER.

may 2, 2025, 5:56 pm • 9 0 • view
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herding-cats @herding-cats730.bsky.social

How can I roll this up into one thread to post elsewhere???? This is gold.

may 2, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

There was a direct thread roll link made. It’s in the comments somewhere

may 2, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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herding-cats @herding-cats730.bsky.social

TX. I'll look for it!

may 2, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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Andrea Briggs @andi999.bsky.social

Lol - I saw an article that said "RFK JR wants to do studies on vaccines with a placebo group, here's a video on why that's a problem" and I was like, who has to watch a video to know that to test effectiveness of vaccines means you have to actually infect the control group with a deadly virus???

may 2, 2025, 5:11 pm • 64 7 • view
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social

People who don't think about this stuff as often as us? Or ever?

may 2, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social

As for people needing or wanting *videos* for stuff that is way more efficiently transmitted by text, that's something I feel like I will never personally understand, but just have to acknowledge at this point.

may 2, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

A lot of soft brained bitches, that who

may 2, 2025, 5:14 pm • 40 0 • view
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Laureline Knightley 📚🥄 @laurelknightley.bsky.social

The brain 🪱 really did a number, didn’t it?

may 2, 2025, 6:56 pm • 7 0 • view
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social

But we DID placebo studies on measles and Covid vaccines! For measles, RFKjr and I were in the placebo group, and the mid-1960s showed what happened when you expose everybody without/with the 1st measles vax. For Covid, we just did community exposure. ourworldindata.org/grapher/meas...

may 2, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social

And RFKjr did ANOTHER placebo test for measles using the MMR vaccine, in Samoa - it got similar results, showing that lots of people die if you don't vaccinate the population and then introduce measles (a traveler, in that case), compared to a very small number if you do.

may 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

We even have a rule about it! The name of which I cannot remember right now. But basically it says if there is a chance for harm to a test subject, you need to design your testing to prevent that shit, like death!

may 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 146 12 • view
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Jim Hughes @sideshow-jim.bsky.social

Equipoise

may 2, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Loren @lorengoren.bsky.social

There have also been cases where placebo-controlled tests get shut down early because the results show the tested drug is so clearly effective that it would be unethical not to give it to the placebo group as well.

may 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 8 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

Correct! That’s a bit in the weeds for this discussion though. That’s the next discussion.

may 2, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social

Equipoise? Great thread. Hope Saturday is more peaceful than Friday

may 2, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

That’s the right term

may 2, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

21 CFR 56.111 Criteria for IRB approval of research www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... Even before you get to IRB review, FDA can (should) reject an IND or IDE application if the proposed research will result in death, injury requiring hospitalization or congenital anomaly

may 2, 2025, 8:48 pm • 25 3 • view
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queerexplorer.bsky.social @queerexplorer.bsky.social

I’ve been told we have too many regulations as it is so I’m sure just ignoring 21 CFR 56 or any myriad of others will be fine. 🙄

may 2, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

Unless some ignorant DOGE bro cuts it because it looked too burdensome. Even as it stands, it's remarkable how flexible an IRB can be in determining that risk to subjects are minimized and that risk is reasonable in relation to anticipated benefit.

may 2, 2025, 10:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

So the next time your, I do my own research shithead says I don’t see anything wrong with what Lowly’s human car wants to do. Fucking punch them in the arm and ask if they want an aspirin or a skittle. Mother fucking dumb ass bitches!!!

may 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 170 6 • view
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bexhc73.bsky.social @bexhc73.bsky.social

Are you eligible to be Health Secretary?!

may 2, 2025, 7:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

I so fucking am!

may 2, 2025, 8:04 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kenzie @kenziecoder.bsky.social

I mean, if RFK Jr is at the front of the line of those in said clinical trial for the ebola vaccine, followed by the rest of the administration...

may 3, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Cyn Huddleston @cynhuddleston.bsky.social

I like it when you talk technical like that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

may 2, 2025, 5:53 pm • 4 0 • view
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coastal resistance 🇺🇦 @tinydancerz.bsky.social

This is, by far, the best thread I’ve had the pleasure of reading in I don’t even know how long.

may 2, 2025, 6:35 pm • 5 0 • view
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allegrofiona.bsky.social @allegrofiona.bsky.social

God how I love you right now. Thinking about giving my next department talk the same way. #skittlebitches

may 3, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Don Sheldon @donsheldon.bsky.social

Instead of slapping a "kick me" sign on his back put "my other car is an apple."

may 3, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
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sitnstitch.bsky.social @sitnstitch.bsky.social

may 2, 2025, 5:33 pm • 3 0 • view
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info

#SkittleBitches

may 2, 2025, 5:09 pm • 53 1 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

💀

may 2, 2025, 5:14 pm • 26 0 • view
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Librarianian @librarianian.bsky.social

I will literally sign up for any demonstration, talk, or seminar @altfda.altgov.info is giving. This is how motherfucking science should be explained punk ass bitches1

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may 2, 2025, 6:22 pm • 40 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

A Ted talk would be EPIC!

may 2, 2025, 6:27 pm • 34 0 • view
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CaffeineIsLife @caffeineislife.bsky.social

I'll be the coffee barista for that shit, sign me up!

may 2, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Alice. Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice. @rememberalice.bsky.social

I’m 100% in!

may 3, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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andiegreiff.bsky.social @andiegreiff.bsky.social

#skittlebitches 🤣

may 2, 2025, 7:57 pm • 6 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

Novavax: how do you measure efficacy of a vaccine when there's low levels of infection in the community? What if nobody in the placebo arm gets infected during the trial? You can't do a challenge study because there's no treatment for covid, unlike say, vivax malaria.

may 2, 2025, 9:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

You can measure antibodies produced (and how long response lasts). It’s a common surrogate for efficacy.

may 2, 2025, 11:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

Yes and then what would be the purpose of having a placebo arm, aside from political dumb stuff.

may 2, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

There’s no scientifically valid reason to do this, as far as I understand it. Placebo studies are useful in some cases (painkillers and antidepressants are great examples where there is a strong placebo effect), but that is not the case for infectious disease and vaccines.

may 3, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

It's my understanding as well. But if you listen to FDA commish, it's clear he doesn't like covid vaccines.

may 3, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

You can also do challenge studies using animals susceptible to disease. If you’re just tweaking something that already works (like flu or COVID vaccines), either approach is resource intensive for little new information.

may 2, 2025, 11:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

Precisely. So why is FDA commish doubling down on demanding a new RCT from Novavax? We have an MOU with Health Canada, where Novavax is approved. The whole thing is nuts. Animal challenge studies got the anthrax vaccine approved IIRC.

may 2, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

I’m guessing (1) sow doubt with general public that testing isn’t being done in a scientifically valid way. People know about RCTs and placebos but not the more inside baseball details of trials and (2) generate datasets showing large numbers of side effects “vs placebo” that sound bad.

may 3, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

Read FDA commish. Also scroll down for other interviews. tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

And (3) slow down/make trials so expensive that vaccine R&D is no longer worth pursuing.

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ydnew.bsky.social @ydnew.bsky.social

So literally all politics, but very costly in terms of advancing science and human life.

may 3, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
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John Pontoon, dissident rando @johnpontoon.bsky.social

I glad you did a science for me

may 2, 2025, 9:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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Mel @melwin7777.bsky.social

Sorry, but if they’re that dumb they’re just getting punched. They don’t deserve an aspirin or a skittle.

may 2, 2025, 8:23 pm • 7 0 • view
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scienceprof.bsky.social @scienceprof.bsky.social

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may 2, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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may 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bernard Barnes @bernardicus.bsky.social

Equipoise

may 2, 2025, 5:04 pm • 10 0 • view
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

That’s fucking it!!! Thank you

may 2, 2025, 5:10 pm • 4 0 • view
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Brian Hill @brianhill53703.bsky.social

I just learned that word this week, lol.

may 2, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social

Known it for decades - Equipoise was the great-grandfather of that totally-gonna-win horse in "Fugue For Tinhorns" from Guys&Dolls :-)

may 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 4 0 • view
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Manyakitty @manyakitty.bsky.social

Was that covered under ICH rules?

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info

Sorta yes

may 2, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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lynn0908.bsky.social @lynn0908.bsky.social

I love when the FDA is unhinged. Best thread I’ve ever read. 👏🏻

may 3, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
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ChannelYourWarrior @channelyourwarrior.bsky.social

Thank you for excellent explanation! I was LOL in my cube reading this. OMG🤣😂 #skittlebitches #mademyday

may 2, 2025, 5:29 pm • 12 0 • view