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Some background, which may have even appeared on HN before. Markington, the suicide victim, was coerced to join the study through a dubious sounding scheme.

"Dan was acutely psychotic, plagued by delusions about demons, and he had repeatedly been judged incapable of making his own medical decisions. Even worse, he had been placed under an involuntary commitment order that legally compelled him to obey the recommendations of the psychiatrist who recruited him into the study."

http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2013/03/why-univers...