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Risky research — whether beneficial or not — has often relied on various vulnerable populations, including the elderly, soldiers, prisoners, the mentally disabled and orphans of all races and creeds.
Stock analysts said yesterday that they doubted P.& G.'s conservative board would be willing to make such a sudden shift into the drug business, which requires big bets on risky research for big payoffs.
This was not just the view of scientists but also of much of the public; many guardians of the institutionalized children in the safety test of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, for example, said they felt honored to have their children be part of the risky research.
And the hundred and twenty dollars a month that AstraZeneca charges isn't to recoup the costs of risky research and development; the costs were for a series of clinical trials that told us nothing we needed to know, and a half-billion-dollar marketing campaign selling the solution to a problem we'd already solved.
Regulating risky research is getting complicated.
The authors do not argue that "risky" research is the only science that is worth doing.
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But the pricier promises--including an overall boost in funding, unspecified steps to improve opportunities for at least some young researchers, and greater support for risky research--may take a good deal longer to come true, if in fact they ever do.
This kind of support can fund "riskier research" that will ultimately provide an understanding of Alzheimer's and other age-related health diseases that plague us as we move beyond middle age.
Surely, however, anything that might help tip decisions toward riskier research would be good for science and for the scientists whose novel ideas will help it progress.
On the one hand, REBs may not consider as extensively minimal risk research as they do with invasive and riskier research.
(Later, Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Pentagon's well-respected risky-research arm, DARPA, said "ARPA-E is on the same trajectory" in terms of hiring).
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