{"id":4969,"date":"2021-02-21T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/bioethics-tuskegee-vs-covid-econlib\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:22:03","slug":"bioethics-tuskegee-vs-covid-econlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/21\/bioethics-tuskegee-vs-covid-econlib\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioethics: Tuskegee vs. COVID &#8211; Econlib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bryan Caplan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How come no country on Earth tried voluntary paid human experimentation?*  As far as I can tell, the most important factor was the formal and informal opposition of bioethicists.  In particular, bioethicists converged on absurdly (or impossibly) high standards for \u201ctruly informed consent\u201d to deliberate infection<br>&#8230;<\/p><p>I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again: Bioethics is to ethics as astrology is to astronomy.  If bioethicists had previously prevented a hundred Tuskegees from happening, COVID would still have turned the existence of their entire profession into a net negative for humanity.  Verily, we would be better off if their field had never existed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>[note that we are, finally, starting a human challenge trial, in the UK]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/bioethics-tuskegee-vs-covid\/\">https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/bioethics-tuskegee-vs-covid\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Caplan: How come no country on Earth tried voluntary paid human experimentation?* As far as I can tell, the most important factor was the formal and informal opposition of bioethicists. In particular, bioethicists converged on absurdly (or impossibly) high standards for \u201ctruly informed consent\u201d to deliberate infection&#8230; I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1i9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}