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by taylorius 1672 days ago
It's funny how this cost benefit calculation is considered valid when applied to research on mice, but any such calculation used to try to justify research on humans would give a "divide by 0" error. I think there's an inconsistency there somewhere.
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But there absolutely are clinical trials on humans. It's just the humans generally have to volunteer.