quick thought... April 17th, 2006 - 1:53AM
Let’s say your pregnant mother was given a false-positive AIDS test result, hurried onto a research trial to compare the “treatment-limiting toxicitiesâ€? of two anti-HIV drug regimens and then died from the toxicology of the administered drugs. Oh yeah, you’re 13 with no father in the picture. No, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario.
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I’m not an expert on scientific research in general (Lord knows), but I’m having a hard time understanding how anyone could rationally claim this woman gave “informed consent” to this so-called research.
it stinks to high heaven. i’ll put money on it that if she *had money* this wouldn’t have happened to her.