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“Confessions of a \u2018human guinea pig\u2019: Why I\u2019m resigning from Moderna vaccine trials<\/a>,”<\/span>\u00a0an op-ed by Jeremy Menchik<\/a>, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was the most read op-ed<\/a> published by STAT<\/em><\/a> in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of the nearly 500 First Opinion essays published by STAT<\/em> in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond, Menchik’s recollection of taking part in the Moderna COVID-19<\/a> vaccine trial was the site’s most viewed. In his piece, Menchik discusses his desire to advance the vaccine\u2019s development and dissemination. However, he states that his excitement over the vaccine\u2019s success has diminished as “the noble enterprise of science-making I had imagined I was a part of is actually, first and foremost, an exercise in ruthless corporate profit-making.” Menchik lamented Moderna\u2019s decision not to share its mRNA technology so global production could be scaled up quickly and criticized the company for choosing profit over the collective good of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n The list of STAT<\/em>‘s top opinion articles of 2022 can be read on the publication’s website<\/a>. Further details on Menchik’s op-ed can be read on the Pardee School website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeremy Menchik<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is an Associate Professor in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and a faculty affiliate in Political Science and Religious Studies. His first book,\u00a0<\/span>Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2016) explains the meaning of tolerance to the world\u2019s largest Islamic organizations and was the co-winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations. His work has appeared in the academic journals\u00a0Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em>,\u00a0Comparative Politics<\/em>,\u00a0International Studies Review<\/em>,\u00a0Politics and Religion<\/em>,\u00a0Asian Studies Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0South East Asia Research<\/em>\u00a0as well as in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The New York Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and\u00a0USA Today<\/em>. His recent research focuses on social movements, the politics of modern religious authority, and the origins of the missionary impulse. Read more about Professor Menchik on his\u00a0<\/span>faculty profile<\/a> or his personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of the nearly 500 First Opinion essays published by STAt in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond, Menchik’s recollection of taking part in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial was the site’s most viewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":21171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11797],"tags":[11835,11583,8378,9576,11635,11649,11866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55302\/revisions\/55306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}