Should A Christian Participate In A Drug Trial?

[OneLight]

6 hours ago, com7fy8 said:

@OneLight that "fake pill" probably is what they call a "placebo". 

A placebo can be used as the comparison pill, in drug research. It has everything in it, except the medical substance which is being tested to go into a pill.

They might give you the placebo, to see what effects its chemicals have, if any, then give you a pill with the placebo stuff plus the tested medical substance, to see if the tested drug chemical makes any difference.

If the drug makes no difference, compared with the placebo, they know the drug does not work. But if the pill with the drug helps to cure the person, but the placebo did nothing, this can mean the medical test chemical does work.

But the tested drug might cause some other effect! It might be good for something else. Or, its effect might be harmful. And since they already found how the placebo's chemicals did not harm the person or produce other effects, they have evidence of what the test drug can cause. 

In your case, may be they used the placebo first along with the injection, so they could see what the injection alone could do. And indeed it seems it helped to reduce your count, but not permanently. But then they gave you the pill with the medicine being tested in pill form, and the effect was permanent, it seems

So, the placebo multi-tasked, in this case - - - I see to be possible.

The placebo helped to show what the injection by itself could do. But also it helped compare injection alone with injection plus the tested pill med.

 

Thanks for the lengthy explanation, but I just forgot what it was called at the time of posting.  Yes, it was a placebo.

[JohnR7]

23 hours ago, Mr. M said:

would you participate?

Maybe if they were a specialist. They are looking for side effects so the doctors know what to look for and test for. I have drugs that can affect magnesium and potassium. So they have to test to see that they are at the proper level.

[Dennis1209]

You have heard the auction speed reader whiz through the possible side effects of their pharmakeia product at the end of their commercial. Everything from nausea, cramps, headache, and vomiting to death in a percentage of the tested participants. How did they determine that?

Drugs must go through (or at least they formally did) a standard FDA protocol for approval over several years. The last stage is usually human testing, where ½ are given the drug, and ½ are given a placebo, as I understand. In their haste for money and getting their product to market, do drug companies have the time to wait for doctor referrals to pour in?

Historically, what was the standard for immunizations? What was and is the standard for these Covid jabs? That is another story beat to death on this forum, but I digress.

Things may have changed, but a long time ago, as I recall, my brother volunteered to participate in these drug testing’s to pick up some extra cash. They housed you for the weekend, fed you, and, depending on the drug, paid you $250.00 - $750.00. That was good money for the 1980s for just a weekend if you qualified.

My brother Bob was required to stay at the facility for the weekend for observation and possibly medical intervention if needed. For the following X number of weeks, he was obligated to fill out forms asking many health and symptom-related questions.

Both my wife, sister and I noticed what those tests were doing to his health and warned him. But he needed the money more.

If I did not tell my brother, I would have been thinking about P.T. Barnum, “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Money never bought anyone an additional second to their life. But money has stolen away from those unfortunates who had unintended consequences.

To plagiarize and paraphrase Spock in the 23^rd century. It reminds me that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

To directly answer the Ops question: I would not, to include these experimental Covid jabs that went from “one time” to the last I heard recommended annually. What is next, a “One A Day” Covid multivitamin?

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor in real life. But I do play one on the Internet from time to time. 😊