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I mean, when your entire post is a rant it's hard to converse reasonably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If your problem's with Tuskegee specifically (and at no point did I compare your alcoholism study with Tuskegee, that’s a straw man), there's plenty of other ethical failures I've referenced in sibling replies where it would also be problematic to hand patient data to a separate group of researchers, no matter the good intentions.

My original point, since it seems to have been missed, was that no matter the failings of the original study it would be problematic to pass patient data to a third party without a legal requirement to do so.

With respect to my disregard for what a judge says, if your basis for ethics is "if it's legal then it's fine" then you're definitely in cloud cuckoo land.