Is There a Profit Motive for Vaccines?

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There is this diabolical er notion that ar the profit motives are completely skewed here, where th no one stands to make any money off a vivor mecton. And therefore a legion of mustache twirling pharmaceutical executives have rigged the whole conversation to foreclose the compassionate use of abit essentially free generic drait. I mean, you have to ask yourself, why would some one like me, who, i'm not profiting, or your doctor, who says you should get vaccinated? They're not being paid for offering this advice. Oever, one thing or another thing. The decline in mortality over the last hundred years, which is just a miraculous achievement of modern society

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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