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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8227196" data-attributes="member: 710">IIRC, the argument against making it open source was that there with vaccines, people need to trust them. And if anything, debate about Corona-Virus vaccines but also persistent myths like "vaccines cause autism" remind us that this isn't wrong. If anyone can make them, then there will also be people making them that are less than competent, if not outright maliciously trying to make a quick buck. And that will damage the reputation of vaccines.I guess the question is what happens next - if guess if you could still get a license to produce a vaccine provided without fees, if you provided reasonable quality assurance measures (which will still cost money), it would seem that it's not about someone making money, but really about ensuring trust. Unfortunately I don't know enough about that case.Fundamentally however, the problem with this approach is that its all up to a small number of people to decide stuff that will affect thousands to millions to billions - without the ones being affected - having invested such decision power in them. There is neither social consensus nor content involved in the decision making process.</blockquote>