Agency says application rejected due to lack of ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial, but experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’
A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna’s clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a “brazen failure” and that the FDA is now calling it into question.
The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna’s application for a flu shot based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in a decision that experts say is already having a chilling effect on vaccine development.
Officials say the issue is the design of the study, in which control group participants over the age of 65 should have received a high-dose flu shot instead of a standard flu shot.
Outside experts say the reasons seem to go deeper. “It’s all pretext and obfuscation when the real agenda is rejecting conventional science and serving a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda,” said Richard Hughes IV, a partner with Epstein Becker Green and law professor at George Washington University.
Journalist 1: well we can’t say they know what they’re talking about, because then it’ll seem like we agree with them, and the administration is absolutely wrong
Journalist 2: Put “experts claim” and then it makes it seem like they might just be wrong and we haven’t picked a side, even though, in a court of law, you literally have an expert testimony to determine the truth.
Journalist 1: billionaires are our betters!
Journalist 2: they sure are