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------- Forwarded message ------- >Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:02:45 -0700 >From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com> >Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] In UK, experimenting with heart attack victims without consent >To: privacy-list@vortex.com > > >In UK, experimenting with heart attack victims without consent > >Direct from the UK comes word of one of the more dubious medical >experiments I've heard of in some time, that should raise ethical red >flags around the world. > >If you live in the Welsh, West Midlands, North East, South Central and >London Ambulance Service areas, and you take no action to opt-out from >a planned new University of Warwick study -- and you're unfortunate >enough to have a heart attack -- you may randomly find yourself >treated with a placebo rather than the conventional treatment of >adrenaline. If you die from your heart attack, researchers will not >actively seek out your relatives to inform them of how you were >treated. > >Persons who happen to see advertisements about the study in those >areas and so learn of its existence can in theory opt-out -- >otherwise, you're a lab rat whether you want to be or not. > >Researchers have a legitimate question -- does adrenaline therapy in >these situations do more harm than good? Unfortunately, in their >attempt to avoid study bias, they have violated a basic informed >consent principle of ethical experimentation. > >I suspect that this study stands a good chance of collapsing in the >light of publicity, and the litigation potential appears enormous even >for the UK. If nothing else, I would expect to see campaigns urging UK >residents in the affected areas to opt-out en masse. > >I would opt-out if I lived there. > >Sometimes ostensibly "good science" is unacceptably bad ethics. > > >--Lauren-- >Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren >Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info >Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info >Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy >I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. >Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com >Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein >Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein >Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com >_______________________________________________ >privacy mailing list >http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy > ------------------------------------ Posted by: Bill Kingsbury <b.b.bb@verizon.net> ------------------------------------ «¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» § Health_and_Healing - PULSE ON 21st CENTURY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE & WORLD NEWS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Health_and_Healing Subscribe send email to: http://Health_and_Healing-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Alternative Health and Old Time Cures: http://ElementsOfHealth.webs.com Sacred Geometry Health Pendants / LIVING CALCIUM GREEN BENTONITE CLAY, SO PURE IT IS FOOD GRADE FOR INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL USE. http://www.HolisticEnergyStore.com/ THE OPEN LINE NEWSPAPER, HEALTH NEWS, SPIRITUAL, ENVIRONMENT, ETC. http://WWW.THEOPENLINE.ORG
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