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From: jpalmer@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (John D. Palmer)
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Subject: Re: KS research
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Date: 14 Jan 91 02:37:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan7.171245.17639@cs.ucla.edu> bywater!arnor!cs.ucla.edu!dgreen@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>
>However, I am disturbed by the slowness of NIH as well.  The
>AIDS vaccine trial which I have been involved with for 2.5 years has 
>been extremely slow, ostensibly to avoid risks to its experimental
>subjects.  However, having seen several friends die, I would be happy
>to add more risk to myself to see fewer people die of AIDS.
>
>It is quite infuriating.  Medical practitioners involved with AIDS seem
>to lose their sense of "the big picture" to the individual concerns of
>their experimental subjects, or the day-to-day issues of grant pursuit.
>
         A lot of people are mentioning this in frustration; studies
going slowly and forgetting the 'big picture'. . .
     If you got AIDS in a clinical test of a vaccination, you PROBABLY
wouldn't care that you were a hero helping many other to live. . . 
     It is true if left to themselves the doctors may take forever to find
a vaccination or cure, but one must also accept that there is a certain rate
of speed in research, which if exceeded, will result in incorrect conclusoins.
     In the case of AIDS, this could be a noncure touted as a cure, a 
vaccination with an unacceptable rate of the inoculee acquiring AIDS,
or any one of a number of nightmares.
                                 Crazyman