safe covid vaccines, the research community did not make use of thousands tens of thousands of volunteers who wanted to be challenged themselves. there was an organisation called one day sooner, which said, we can get the vaccine sooner if you make use of these fully informed human volunteers who are prepared to have candidate vaccines tested on them and then be challenged with a virus . and i think it was a mistake not to do that. it would have saved animals but, perhaps more importantly, you might think, it would have saved human lives. now, this is where you, as an ethicist, get into really hot water, isn t it? because now we ve gone into that territory of using humans for experiments. you say, as i understand it tell me if i am wrong that there is no more ethical justification for experimenting on a rat or a mouse than a severely intellectually disabled human that is a human who is sort of in a vegetative state. you are saying, you know what? use those humans for test
well, i m not absolutist about animal experiments. there are some circumstances in which maybe the benefits are so great and there is no other way of doing it and the harms to animals are absolutely minimised. would the race to find covid vaccines be one of them? well, at some stages but, in fact, in the race to find safe covid vaccines, the research community did not make use of thousands tens of thousands of volunteers who wanted to be challenged themselves. there was an organisation called one day sooner, which said, we can get the vaccine sooner if you make use of these fully informed human volunteers who are prepared to have candidate vaccines tested on them and then be challenged with a virus . and i think it was a mistake not to do that. it would have saved animals but, perhaps more importantly, you might think, it would have saved human lives.
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