Government tested AIDS drugs on foster kids

abbyjean:

sonneillonv:

hawkschild:

Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, often without providing them a basic protection afforded in federal law and required by some states, an Associated Press review has found.

Absolutely sickening.

these are the things i think about when, at the beginning of each year, people complain about the mandatory IRB training and talk about how complicated and burdensome the process is. that said, it’s not clear from the article if they got IRB approval and then just didn’t do any of the things they promised to do or, what i think is more likely, just didn’t go through IRB at all.