Friday, May 06, 2005
Same Thing?
This article is about the use of foster children in drug trials.
What really bothers me is that they want to create outrage about this, but not about the story above. This is an error that needs correction; embryo farming really is an outrage.
Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, often without providing them a basic protection afforded in federal law and required by some states, an Associated Press review has found.You read that and you think it is horrifying, fortunately it is not quite as bad as it sounds. We are talking about some bureaucratic oversight here, not a genuine "basic protection" like giving the kids toxic drugs or some such nonesense. There is no evidence that any child in the studies suffered any health consequences not common to trials of the type under stricter bureaucratic operations.
What really bothers me is that they want to create outrage about this, but not about the story above. This is an error that needs correction; embryo farming really is an outrage.
