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There was no way to be sure the vaccine would be safe. Vaccines are dangerous. Just as no one can predict how they will work, so no one can be sure they will cause no harm. To meet the fall deadline, manufacturers rushed through the required process of testing first in animals, then in small groups of humans, and finally in larger groups. There was no time to study long-term effects; the government recommended the vaccine to pregnant women, for instance, after less than nine months of testing. Parke-Davis manufactured and had to discard over 1.5 million defective...
There are only about 20 well-known flu vaccine experts in the United States. They know each other well, serve on committees together and tend to view vaccine policy from the same perspective. They believe in the flu vaccine and they do not emphasize the harm vaccines can cause, either to subjects of clinical trials or to patients later...
...contract to help plan a graduate research center in Iran, the only Iranian contract with which he has been involved, says the question is "not whether I approve of the government but whether this university project is possible, whether the project itself would benefit or harm the Iranian people, not necessarily the Iranian government." Peterson suggests that the university and the presence of Americans whose free speech will be ensured by the terms of the contract--the Americans' salaries are in escrow, and they will get the money no matter what they say--will further rather than harm the cause...
...seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. -Florence Nightingale...
...reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree (and, of course, actual behavior...