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Chris Buck @chrisbuck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I hope everybody will consider the possibility that the ethics committee's attempt to pry its way into my kitchen was an overstep beyond its lawful purview. cbuck.substack.com/p/the-ethics...

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The Ethics of Self-Experimentation

Self-care is a civil right

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Chris Buck @chrisbuck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm not in the habit of using short-form social media, but Tina Saey's excellent coverage of my vaccine beer work has me doing a little monitoring. www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

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He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

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Chris Buck @chrisbuck.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In early 2020 my employer sent a mass email forbidding the use of work PCR machines for Covid self-testing. At the time the policy seemed reasonable to me, but the Hanley review makes a pretty convincing case that the policy violates the Nuremberg Principles. Discuss! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.

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