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Alec Pankow

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From Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People? by Carl Elliott

…o working in swea…o working in sweatshops—people are desperate to work there, under horrific conditions, for pennies. The ethical problem is whether it is acceptable to take advantage of their desperation.

From Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People? by Carl Elliott

Concepts like “coercion” and “undue influence” are poorly suited for economic transactions, however. Offering desperate people money to take risks to their health may be wrong, but nobody is being coerced. No one is threatening to harm people if they refuse to become test subjects. One parallel would be …

From Is Big Pharma Testing Your Meds on Homeless People? by Carl Elliott

… followed, but also that “it would be unfair to exclude homeless persons categorically as a group.” Beauchamp and another panelist, Robert Levine of Yale, went on to become paid ethics consultants for Lilly.