The FDA Simulator
Can you build a model showing Aluminium is safe?
The study the FDA use to justify the safety of Aluminium in vaccines isn’t a clinical study. It’s a model. It’s a mathematical formula basically, which the FDA believe simulates how aluminium is safely cleared from the body. It’s a collection of variables and assumptions that interact with each other to produce a ‘safe limit’ which they claim vaccines fall under. The problem is that models are malleable. Very malleable. Change an input, and you change the answer… there’s a lot of wiggle room to move the numbers around.
These models are not easy to explain; it’s hard to get a grasp of what these models actually do. Seeing all the ways a model could be bent and shaped to get a particular answer isn’t easy. It’s hard to imagine what goes through someone’s mind when they pick the assumptions used inside the model.
To really understand it, we’d have to build a role-playing game, where you are tasked with building the model yourself. That way, you’d see all the different ways it could be put together… We’d need an FDA simulator, so that’s exactly what I made!
You’re playing the role of an FDA staffer. You’re brought into your boss Vance’s office, and he seems stressed out. He has a job for you... After a bruising brush with the law over the use of mercury, the press and the public are breathing down his neck for information on all the other metals used in vaccines. Vance realises the FDA don’t have much data on the safety of aluminium, and he needs a study, NOW! Your job is to put it together as quickly as Vance demands… Can you get the study together, and keep your morals and ethics too?
Play the game here at the link below. Making games is hard… The Digger is a reader-supported publication, all subscriptions go towards producing the articles and ideas on The Digger… And hey, maybe games could become a regular feature!
The FDA should use this as an employment screen for hiring people.