HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials

An anonymous reader writes "An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed on animals. Phase 1 human trials will check the safety of the vaccine on HIV positive volunteers. Phase 2 will then test immunogenicity."

Comments

Re:Cue objections from the religious right:

[WarJolt]

Nah the religious right wouldn't wish AIDS on anyone...except /. trolls.

Re:Is this it?

[sfritsche]

Relax. Just think of this as natural selection in action. It's all good.

Re:Cue objections from the religious right:

[Kokuyo]

Frankly, sometimes I think empathy is rather what separates some of the lower species from us, if you get my meaning.

Although I have to admit, the longer I live on this planet, the less empathy I have for other human beings. I'm getting overloaded with dumb.

Re:Cue objections from the religious right:

[petrus4]

Yeah, but I know plenty of atheists who are douchebags as well.

Atheists are generally far more obnoxious than most Christians, in my experience. If I get a Mormon at my front door, I can tell them I'm not interested, and they'll go away.

Try doing that with an evangelical atheist sometime. Atheists don't take no for an answer, because they think that the only reason why someone might not want to listen to them, is because said person wants to "remain ignorant."

Aside from anything else, in the case of most people, contemporary atheism is actually complete bullshit. Most people these days who are atheists aren't because they're scientific rationalists or intellectuals. Rather, they're atheists because they're generally close to being sociopathic; the proverbial 4chan or WoW-addicted, 15 year old asshole who exploits online anonymity to be savage and devoid of empathy towards as many people as possible, and being a theist might imply that they actually gave a fuck about something.

Re:Is this it?

[SIR_Taco]

Or because (for you US residents) it was created in a "Socialist government run health care system", and anyone who would take such a vaccine would be at risk of "Socialist ideals regarding the merits of government run health care".

Oh the horror!