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Informed consent is in the way. These agencies are always looking for a way around it. https://anntomokorosen.substack.com/p/nj-parents-file-federal-class-action

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It looks like our government agencies have been looking to remove informed consent as an obstacle to clinical research for some time.

The "Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects" Rule from 2017 was a collaboration between:

Department of Homeland Security; Department of Agriculture; Department of Energy; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Department of Commerce; Social Security Administration; Agency for International Development; Department of Housing and Urban Development; Department of Labor; Department of Defense; Department of Education; Department of Veterans Affairs; Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Health and Human Services; National Science Foundation; and Department of Transportation.

"The departments and agencies listed in this document announce revisions to modernize, strengthen, and make more effective the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects that was originally promulgated as a Common Rule in 1991. This final rule is intended to better protect human subjects involved in research, while facilitating valuable research and reducing burden, delay, and ambiguity for investigators. These revisions are an effort to modernize, simplify, and enhance the current system of oversight."

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-01058/federal-policy-for-the-protection-of-human-subjects

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Dec 20, 2023·edited Dec 20, 2023Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

The FDA needs to go away. 🤡🤡🤡

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Yup. They don't work for us.

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This is to allow meds to be put into water supply or to be sprayed in the air.

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Dec 22, 2023Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

Or to allow the rollout of new vaccines minus informed consent.

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Dec 22, 2023·edited Dec 22, 2023Author

It's clear to me that these organizations are looking for all kinds of loopholes around informed consent to ultimately justify doing whatever they want.

Consider the agencies involved in the 2017 Rule this all refers back to: Department of Homeland Security; Department of Agriculture; Department of Energy; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Department of Commerce; Social Security Administration; Agency for International Development; Department of Housing and Urban Development; Department of Labor; Department of Defense; Department of Education; Department of Veterans Affairs; Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Health and Human Services; National Science Foundation; and Department of Transportation.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-01058/federal-policy-for-the-protection-of-human-subjects

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Can you elaborate? I'm curious about how these dots would connect.

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If you don’t need informed consent this practically means you don’t have to tell someone they are being experimented on. If the ‘experiment’ is allowed then you can slip it into someone without them knowing. All provided there is minimal risk. Like a 95% safe and effective vaccine against the worst health crisis in 100 years? Right. Only none of that was true. They could spray us, as is happening. But with medicine. Or medicines, you know the safe and effective ones, could be put into water systems. The absurdity is how do you know there is minimal risk if the research is still being done. You can’t know this.

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