Experiments regularly take significant risks with peoples lives in the US, it’s far from 0. The barriers are surprisingly low, but come from a history of terri

Experiments regularly take significant risks with peoples lives in the US, it’s far from 0. The barriers are surprisingly low, but come from a history of terrible experiments on the uninformed. People blame the FDA, but lawsuits are also considered a significant risk. This rather famously killed ~100 men in the US and ended in 1972 long after effective treatments where available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study But ethical violations are common, here’s one example where a whistleblower raised concerns in 2016 but it continued until Nov 2018 when funding ran out: https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2021/02/12/new-details-unethical-liver-study-san-diego-va https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2021/02/12/new-details-unet...