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Imagine if there had been a negative outcome. Like they went into a vegetative state. News at 6: "Poor Black People In Third World Country Maimed by Being Used
by aestra 12y ago
Imagine if there had been a negative outcome. Like they went into a vegetative state.
News at 6: "Poor Black People In Third World Country Maimed by Being Used As Guinea Pigs for American Pharmaceutical Company."
- colinbartlett 12y agoThis is the plot to a movie I have seen, though I can't recall its name.
- XorNot 12y agoThe Constant Gardner. Also a book.
- xsmasher 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Africa#Meningitis_testing_in_Nigeria_-_1990s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Afri... Influenced "The Constant Gardener," based on a John le Carré novel.
- DanBC 12y agoThe Constant Gardener, after a John Le Carre book. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/ http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/
- jleyank 12y agoWe discussed this over lunch. Ebola's one of the (fortunately) few diseases that have a quick, negative outcome. So, faced with "death in hours or days", risk management is altered. So, taking something that might not work (die quick), kill you (die quick) or give you more than hours or days to live seems like a good gamble. Or at least not a bad one.