Lab Monkeys and drug testing

[Doug Henwood]

Many research hospitals are located in poor urban neighborhoods. The 
staff has a ready-made experimental population - people who don't 
know what they're signing, if they sign anything, and who are 
extremely unlikely to sue if something goes wrong. And lots of 
hospital staffers believe that poor people bring diseases on 
themselves through bad lifestyle choices, so they pretty much get 
what they deserve.

Doug

Max B. Sawicky wrote:


>what a country.  how come nobody ever writes about this?
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>mbs
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>Humans are used. When pharmaceutical companies apply for an Investigational
>New Drug Application it is automatically effective in 30 days unless the FDA
>disapproves. You better hope someone at FDA is reading that shit carefully.
>In Phase 1 clinical trials, healthy subjects (the poor) are paid a small sum
>to test drugs. 80% of all drugs fail to make it past Phase 1, so the odds
>are as a Phase 1 subject you will be taking a substance that the FDA will
>not approve as safe for human consumption!
>John Thornton