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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 16 2017, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-the-way-that-you-do-it dept.

Questionable herpes vaccine research backed by tech heavyweight Peter Thiel may have jeopardized $15 million in federal research funding to Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. That's according to documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request by The State Journal Register.

In August, Kaiser Health News reported that Thiel and other conservative investors had contributed $7 million for the live-but-weakened herpes virus vaccine, developed by the late SIU researcher William Halford. The investments came after Halford and his private company, Rational Vaccines, had begun conducting small clinical trials in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis. With the off-shore location, Rational Vaccines' trial skirted federal regulations and standard safety protocols for human trials, including having approval and oversight from an institutional review board (IRB).

Experts were quick to call the unapproved trial "patently unethical," and researchers rejected the data from publication, calling the handling of safety issues "reckless." The government of St. Kitts opened an investigation into the trial and reported that health authorities there had been kept in the dark.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/university-could-lose-millions-from-unethical-research-backed-by-peter-thiel/


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Zinho on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:58PM (5 children)

    by Zinho (759) on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:58PM (#597931)

    @RealDonaldTrump, did you forget to log out of your sockpuppet account before posting?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:19PM (#597944)

    Expect further denials from DannyB.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:42PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:42PM (#597958) Journal

      Yep. I can only dream of having thought up the @realDonalTrump login first. But I didn't.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @11:42AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @11:42AM (#598138)

        @realDonalTrump is still available.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:45PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Thursday November 16 2017, @10:45PM (#597959) Journal

      As if one person on the internet has a monopoly on impersonating an inarticulate President. Again, I don't even think DannyB's writing is that similar to realDonaldTrump's given that they're mocking the same character.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @01:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @01:38AM (#598016)

    You seem to be implying that @realdonaldtrump is the real account and DannyB is the sockpuppet.
    Do you think @realdonaldtrump is actually the POTUS and he sometimes pretends to be DannyB?