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[pinaceae]

Only works for treatments that go after the terminally ill, who already have massive issues.

What if it is a vaccine against cancer (such as the HPV one)?

You think a sane parent would offer their healthy child for a drug trial? You'd need the fucking Nazis to accomplish this (they did, see Mengele et al).

"ethically repulsive but from a consequentialist point of view" or just plain crazy.

[tominous → pinaceae]

You'll note I'm proposing this accelerated approach only for terminally ill volunteers, not healthy children. I haven't edited my comment.

Strangely enough, we already test vaccines and other drugs on healthy volunteers.

[blaurenceclark → tominous]

Yup! And they get paid (sometimes well) to be vaccine trial participants I believe