Political ends<\/p>\n
\u201cThe space in which this protocol will be conducted, the vaccine evaluation center inside the clinical center, has been in existence for decades,\u201d Green said. Like all protocols, it needs to undergo rigorous scientific and ethical reviews before it\u2019s implemented at the hospital. Green said the protocol is still under review.<\/p>\n
None of this was made clear in Kennedy\u2019s ceremony, and Leslie condemned the optics of the event, particularly the signs labeling patients \u201cvaccine injured.\u201d Those patients \u201cmust come first,\u201d Leslie said. \u201cThey deserve our care and respect and they deserve answers.\u201d But Kennedy does them\u2014and the hospital\u2014a disservice, Leslie argued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe secretary has spent two decades arguing that vaccines are dangerous,\u201d Leslie said. \u201cThose signs announce the conclusion that the research has not yet reached and that the research exists to test. Think about what that means for those patients. If this research finds evidence of harm, many will dismiss it as the work of a secretary who has long argued that vaccines are dangerous. If it finds none, patients will be told that the clinic was a sham. Either way, they\u2019re left with answers no one trusts, and science only helps patients when the public believes it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leslie said he feared that the stunt sends a political message that will undermine trust that the hospital has worked to earn and maintain for over 70 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe clinical center standing rests on one thing: the confidence of patients, physicians, and the public that the research done here is designed to find the truth, not to confirm a conclusion reached in advance,\u201d he said. \u201cTrust is slow to build and quick to lose. If people come to believe that research at this hospital can be steered toward a politically desired answer, the damage will not stop at vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Leslie\u2019s statement, another member thanked him and made a motion for the board to support the statement. The motion was quickly seconded and, in a voice vote, the board unanimously endorsed the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political ends \u201cThe space in which this protocol will be conducted, the vaccine evaluation center inside the clinical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-892328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}