In the trials for molnupiravir, patients who had received the placebo died. Others spent longer time in hospital, thus having a better chance of ending up with long covid.
In the hydroxychloroquine observational trials that Dr. Zelenko presented, the placebo patients received the best currently available treatment. That is an ethical way of running a medication trial.
Medical Research Ethics - Belmont Report
The Belmont Report is a report created by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Its full title is the Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
The report was issued on 30 September 1978[1] and published in the Federal Register on 18 April 1979.[2] The report took its name from the Belmont Conference Center where the document was drafted in part.
The Belmont Report explains the unifying ethical principles that form the basis for the National Commission's topic-specific reports and the regulations that incorporate its recommendations.
The three fundamental ethical principles for using any human subjects for research are:[2]
- Respect for persons: protecting the autonomy of all people and treating them with courtesy and respect and allowing for informed consent. Researchers must be truthful and conduct no deception;
- Beneficence: the philosophy of "Do no harm" while maximizing benefits for the research project and minimizing risks to the research subjects; and
- Justice: ensuring reasonable, non-exploitative, and well-considered procedures are administered fairly — the fair distribution of costs and benefits to potential research participants — and equally.
These principles remain the basis for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) human subject protection regulations.
Today, the Belmont Report continues as an essential reference for institutional review boards (IRBs) that review HHS-conducted or -supported human subjects research proposals involving human subjects, in order to ensure that the research meets the ethical foundations of the regulations.
Applications of these principles to conduct research requires careful consideration of i) informed consent, ii) risks benefit assessment, and iii)selection of subjects of research.
"To really make your own personal assessment of risk benefit ratio you have to understand what the risks are and again in their wisdom the government has decided on the noble lie strategy of denying that there are risks or only disclosing risks if they're absolutely forced to and just insisting that everybody get the jab and... deploying amazingly powerful tools to convince the population that they should take the jab.
But those old gray hairs like me that have been through this and through multiple outbreaks say, yeah but... the risks for newborns through about age 40 are at the margins or upside down for taking vaccine versus your risk of getting covid, severe covid, to the point where you're hospitalized or you die. 103.21
So many of us are saying no no no, this has got to stop... these are still experimental products and so this gets into the bioethics, the fundamental bioethics that go back to the Nuremberg trials...
The Belmont Report... it's codified in federal law as the common rule. I'll say that for an experimental product, there must be full and complete disclosure of risks, those risks have to be comprehended and comprehensible, so that in the States that translates to eighth grade language and the person has to accept the experimental product of their own accord by free choice, free will, they cannot be coerced and they cannot be compelled through incentives like lottery tickets... or ice cream for the adolescents... by definition they cannot provide informed consent, and their parents or their guardians have to.
So... those are the rules, and we have decided to, uh the government has decided to disregard those rules even though they're in federal law... and... try to keep people from even discussing things, even scientists discussing risks or other aspects... so don't put this up on YouTube you may get deleted. "
Robert Malone. 