3 ms·
I don't know, maybe they just gave him a break on the charges in exchange for cooperating with the study. You know the scientists would try to pull something li
by andrewflnr 3y ago
I don't know, maybe they just gave him a break on the charges in exchange for cooperating with the study. You know the scientists would try to pull something like that to study a unique case if at all possible, and I know I would "actively and voluntarily consent" to that if my alternative was jail.
- mikeyouse 3y agoThat'd be super unethical and they point out it passed their IRB so that's unlikely to have been the case. I believe their system is like the US where the docs/pharmacies are reimbursed for each dose given so the prosecutors likely were doing basic fraud detection and saw that 100+ doses were associated with the same person which lead them to investigate -- it's probably not illegal to get hundreds of vaccinations hence the lack of charges and it just so happened to have provided an interesting data point for researchers.
- andrewflnr 3y agoFair point about the ethics angle. I guess. Personally I think it's morally fine (clearly a win-win for him and society) but it does look like coercion and there's a case for avoiding "even the appearance of evil"...
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]