In praise of patience

[pecunium]

rivka has made me glad I did not jump on the bandwagon of outrage over the use of children as unwitting test subjects for HIV drugs in New York City.

She goes into detail on the subject at Respectful of Otters.

I'd like to say this tripped my worry meter enough that I'd done more than set it aside, pending corroboration, before I let outrage take over, but I didn't. I merely filed it as unlikely.

Maia and I are heading to L.A. this afternoon, because I have drill this weekend, and it's mandatory fun (to be honest, I'd rather have some real work to do this weekend, but it's needful. We have to have a couple of briefings every year, and this letes family get together. With guys deployed, it lets their families know we've not forgotten them, but feh. Even with people I really like, mandatory fun is tedious).

I may make the time to try and marshall some thoughts a fight in another place has set to bubbling, but I may not.

No food porn, no descriptives, and no real ranting at the moment. See you all later.


Oh, andmatociquala thanks for all the exposure. If I were having a subscription drive, you'd be the prize winner, by miles.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything in my post that amounts to an unqualified endorsement of ACS.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, it seems to me that personal facts relating to ACS make kibbles make her suspicious enough of them to be willing to believe they would be the strongarm for a Tuskegee sort of experiment.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can see that.

Hopefully it helps in this case to know that the conspiracy would also have to involve the FDA, the federal Office of Research Protections, and several indepedent-of-each-other divisions of Columbia University.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Didn't say THAT, but I am just saying that I don't trust ACS, and from what I know of them, such a story wouldn't suprise me. (Which is really sad because of what their purpose is supposed to be -- protecting children.)