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At a recent World Health Organization meeting in Geneva, Ripley Ballou, the head of GlaxoSmithKline’s program to develop a vaccine, argued that a randomized controlled trial comparing a potential Ebola vaccine with a vaccine that protects against another virus would be the most ethical way to assess efficacy.

In a letter published last month in The Lancet, doctors, scientists, and bioethicists from a wide range of countries – including Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, as well as Britain, France, Hong Kong, and the United States – argued that a randomized trial is justified only when there is “equipoise,” or balance, between the two options offered.

It can be argued that the sophisticated loan packages created by banks in recent years are, likewise, a new and unknown product, so information and experience to aid pricing has been scarce and dispersed.

The distinguished twentieth-century British philosopher of law, H.L.A. Hart, argued for a partial version of Mill’s principle.

Schumacher argued that human institutions, as complex structures with dynamic governance, require broad systemic analysis.

As devoted followers of Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich, the club argued that bad things come from exponential growth, and good things from linear growth.

He argued that taxing short-term movements of money in and out of different currencies would curb speculation and create some maneuvering room for domestic macroeconomic management.

A Tobin tax would raise the cost of short-term finance, some argued, somehow missing the point that this is in fact the very purpose of a Tobin tax.

Others argued that such a tax fails to target the underlying incentive problems in financial markets, as if we had an effective, well-proven alternative to achieve that end.

Supervision and regulation would stand in the way, liberalizers argued, and governments could not possibly keep up with the changes.

The main opposition party argued that the vote was invalid, and the General Staff issued a statement that it was “watching this situation with concern.”

But, as I argued then, the development of reason could take us in a different direction.

The only thing that would ever matter, “realists” argued, was return on investment, regardless of the cost to people, the planet, or economies.

For example, a coalition of lawyers argued this week in an open letter that the UN is being “overcautious” and has the authority to enter Syria without its government’s consent in order to provide aid.

In his famous book, The Concept of the Political, Schmitt argued that Germany's Weimar Republic rotted away because its leaders refused to confront their self-declared enemies.

But sovereign decisions are unavoidable everywhere, Schmitt argued, even in societies founded on liberal principles.

Standard & Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with “less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.”

But, as the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, of which I was then a member, argued as early as 2008, large-scale immigration has brought significant disadvantages for many people.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt, who hosted the peace conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after the Russo-Japanese War, argued for the return of Manchuria to Manchu-ruled China and for a balance of power in East Asia.

Currently, there are 25 constituencies nationwide, but reformers have long argued that a smaller number – each with a larger number of voters – would be less susceptible to manipulation by the political elite.

In response, the government removed the redistricting issue from parliament to the constitutional court – an attempt, reformers argued, to hold back change.

By contrast, as Henry Kissinger has argued, the victors in World War I could neither deter a defeated Germany nor provide it with incentives to accept the Versailles Treaty.

As the economists Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand argued more than a decade ago, “It would be a gross violation of the universalist principle if we were to be obsessed about intergenerational equity without at the same time seizing the problem of intragenerational equity.”

Financial institutions fell off the cliff in 2008, it is argued, because they got too close to the edge.

Pundits argued that if the Republicans resisted reform, they would lose the Latino vote for the next generation, relegating their party to near-permanent opposition status.

That mass delusion, Dornbusch argued, keeps the inflow going long after it should come to an end.

A few years ago, Fareed Zakaria, then an editor of Foreign Affairs , argued against the priority normally given to democracy, simply defined as the possibility of choosing political leaders through free elections.

The world is full of democracies, he argued, that routinely violate human rights.

Since the 1970’s, Kouchner has argued that states have a duty to prevent dictatorial governments from committing the worst abuses against their people.

In 1976, a top US State Department adviser to Henry Kissinger controversially argued that Russia had failed to establish “organic” relationships with these countries.

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