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This seems like a simple equation to me. The kid needs to be without further recourse, and the drug company needs to be indemnified. After that, what's wrong wi
by themartorana 11y ago
This seems like a simple equation to me. The kid needs to be without further recourse, and the drug company needs to be indemnified. After that, what's wrong with it? A last ditch effort is better than no effort, at least in the hearts of the parents that are about to suffer the worst fate that can befall a human being - losing a child.
(I know it's not "simple.")
- erikpukinskis 11y agoYou've basically got it, except if you have a ton of super sick people taking the drugs it can mess up the results (when you're that close to death all kids of unrelated stuff starts shutting down). If you allow the drug companies to omit those people from the results, that can be exploited. Drug companies could give risky drugs to a bunch of really sick people and then use those results to tailor the real trial to try to hide side effects. The point of "report everything" is they can't monkey around with the experiments.