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I think the article called to mind some other issues that were more important than the debate about how ethical studies like this are or are not.

This guy's mother was giving the researchers feedback that the participant could not. Namely, that he was getting WORSE. She tried to have him removed from the program, and apparently couldn't. That goes well beyond "yet another statistic", especially as he was deemed incapable of making his own medical decisions.