Finding Skew: Informed Consent and Bias in Clinical Trials

Clinical researchers have long claimed that patients who enter clinical trials are better off medically than those who don’t. I’m open to the notion that patients might derive personal meaning from trial participation, but I’ve always been dubious of the suggestion that trial participation in itself is therapeutically beneficial–above and beyond drugs received– in part… Continue reading Finding Skew: Informed Consent and Bias in Clinical Trials