Consider the following You have invented a new drug that has

Consider the following: You have invented a new drug that has the potential to cure AIDS. In order to get the drug approved by the FDA, you need to do a two-year clinical trial in which 1,000 AIDS patients receive the new drug and another 1,000 AIDS patients receive a placebo. The patients in each group are chosen at random. By the end of the trial, 960 patients who received the placebo have died, and 400 who received the drug were cured. Would you have wanted to be associated with this type of medical improvement? Why?

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