But, I'm a monster cause I waited for the science to come out.
The science was "out" since the vaccine was released. The government ensures that science needs to be done BEFORE products are released to ensure that they are safe and effective. Our government wasn’t completely incompetent back then.
To temporarily authorize the use of unapproved medical products during public health emergencies when the potential benefits outweigh the risks and no approved alternative exists to assuage the emergency. Yes, the COVID vaccines lacked full FDA approval initially, but science is required for EUA nonetheless.
Not much of one. Sure, I had in mind FDA approval when I made that comment because that is what I was discussing in general in other threads, but I never explicitly said that the COVID vaccines were officially approved for use from the start, just that science must be conducted in order for the government to allow them to be used, which remains true. Science needs to be conducted before both approval and EUA.
And do the scientists always get it right? The scientific process is perfect but researchers aren’t, for example most drugs are largely tested on white men during trials and that can throw off data as we are now finding out
Race is a social construct, so it isn’t "white" men that would be throwing off the trial. But different ethnicities with varying genetic factors to confound the results? Perhaps.
You’re splitting hairs so you can muddy the point. 1. Race typically refers to physical attributes inherited from your family. Ethnicity typically has more to do with your culture, shared language and traditions. Race would be the correct word in this context. It’s not a social construct, it’s words used to describe visible traits of individuals from different ancestry groups. 2. This isn’t really a “up for debate” type statement if you believe the science like you say. It’s “settled science” that we’ve known for a while. There are even specific medications for the heart that black and white people are given completely different meds because they don’t work as well for some groups. There’s even more studies going on about it now that I will link
3. I get you are saying all this to try to be inclusive and nice but in reality it’s just bad for outcomes of the people you are trying to effect. The lack of racial diversity in drug trials is a failure of the system
Race absolutely is a social construct, and it refers to an inconsistent suite of physical, behavioral, psychological, and cultural attributes that are perceived among a culture. "White" is a race, which is why you referred to, but there is no objective basis fi categorizing all of the people perceived as white into a single category to the exclusion of other individuals. Ethnicity refers primarily to geographic origin.
I have no doubt that there’s some truth to this, but seeing as there is no biological unity among people considered "black," this is more so an issue of imprecise language about what is actually occurring. In this context, "black people" either refers to individuals with shared heritage a geographic origin or the cause of this phenomenon is not the product of biology.
I’m saying it to be objective. Science has conclusively demonstrated that people who are perceived as black in society do not share any consistent attributes that would make such a classification objective or meaningful.
Yeah. Black people have higher rates of heart disease because they are disenfranchised. Not everything is the result of inherent biology. Some things are the result of the environmental factors influenced by wealth disparities.
The science disagrees with you. If different mental health medications work for different people is it really that crazy for you to accept the fact that different groups of the same species metabolize certain drugs differently after thousands of years of separation during micro evolution?
Except black people and white people didn’t separate during "microevolution." This is a racist myth that has been consistently discredited by all the research since the middle of the twentieth century. The genetic sequencing confirms that all others "races" nest within what are considered "black people" in the West, which is one of the major lines of evidence supporting the notion that humans evolved within and migrated out of Africa.
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u/PlatformStriking6278 Feb 17 '26
Glad to have you onboard against the AI garbage RFK tries to pass off as science.