Follow the money: Clinical trial ‘guinea pigs’ say they’re incentivized to lie
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often economically desperate test subjects each year, using incentives that some experts say are both exploitative and push participants to lie.
____________________________________________________________________________Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimental medication in exchange for money.
A staffer told him their tests showed one of his organs was inflamed and that a doctor needed to examine him.
“Is this something, like, permanent?” Franco asked.
“I’m not a doctor,” said the staffer. “I can give you the basic information of what I know … Because of the results that we got, you can’t continue on the trial, OK?”
“I mean, I don’t have an option, right?” Franco replied.
Like many professional clinical trial participants, Franco normally stays quiet about the side effects he experiences. He only gets paid in full if he completes the entire study. Leaving early because of an adverse reaction means he’ll forfeit more than $15,000.
Private companies in Canada are recruiting thousands of often economically desperate test subjects each year, using incentives that some experts say are both exploitative and push participants to lie. When that happens, data that Health Canada uses to approve drugs for the marketplace can be compromised.
Franco and his peers are part of an underground society of so-called “professional guinea pigs” lured by cash, referral bonuses, loyalty points, and other perks advertised by private companies to encourage
them to sell their bodies for pharmaceutical research. […]The government’s inspections of the trials themselves are limited. While Health Canada approves more than 1,000 trials every year, only a small fraction is inspected.
In a statement, Health Canada said it rigorously oversees clinical trials and works to protect the health and safety of participants.
The health agency said it aims to publish new regulations in spring 2025 that will “align with international best practices regarding trial oversight,” including changes that “would result in direct regulatory oversight of third parties involved in conducting clinical trials.” Health Canada did not say what those regulatory changes would be.
“This is fine.”
“In a statement, Health Canada said it rigorously oversees clinical trials and works to protect the health and safety of participants.”
That’s okay, Health Canada is hard at work banning supplements.
Except when they don’t, in the case of covid vaxxes.
And where is the Big Pharma rep, Killer Marmot, on this?
Down a few a comments!
“In a statement, Health Canada said it rigorously oversees clinical trials and works to protect the health and safety of participants.”
= “we try”
“align with international best practices regarding trial oversight,”
So they’ll do the tests on people in West Africa with no oversight… got it…
Philanthropist nails it: globalism to the rescue!
For Killer Marmot and similar douchebags who help to prop this system up: go dunk your head in a bucket full of water three times, … and take it out twice.
What we ALL knew is now being revealed at last. I really hope KM didn’t coerce any of his loved ones into going along with all this Big Pharma BS.
I really hope none of you douchebags coerced any of your loved ones not to get vaccinated.
But I’m not optimistic.
They can’t help themselves. Fortunately rancid stupidity from the anti-science crowd is not contagious.
Mr. Marmot, Pfizer would willing kill you, before paying you $15,000.
The above story is about small companies in Canada. It makes no mention of Pfizer and may have nothing to do with them.
This in the comments of an article about blatant, widespread FRAUD in clinical trials. And after the widespread knowledge that the EXPERIMENTAL mad-science genetic modification jab is:
A) not in any way a vaccination
and
B) utterly useless at controlling the virus it was supposed to control.
Not to mention,
C) the appalling lunatics who made the made the thing mandatory are turning out to be a bunch of perverts as well,
and finally
D) the number of fatal side effects from the jab is -large- compared to any actual vaccine brought out in the last [wild guess] 40 years.
Faced with the evidence of widespread, obvious and heinous corruption, The Marmot says “you douchebags”.
Uh huh.
Or the “studies” you so blithely claim as “gold standard evidence” are actually lies. The number of corrupt studies keeps mounting, sir. What will you do when the truth finally comes out in a way you can’t deny?
I said “you douchbags” because I was echoing RocknRoll. Naturally you have nothing to say about his use of the phrase.
But all four points are blatantly wrong. You have no evidence for them that stands up to even cursory examination, and thus your beliefs are nothing more than blind faith.
I believe in being blunt, forthright and frank. You are, in fact, a Big Pharma rep, or in some similar way compromised, by funding, or you are an employee of a socialist government “health” agency. You refuse to declare your financial conflict of interest to the forum. That makes you the very epitome of a douchebag.
Actually, I’m a retired geophysicist / mathematician / software developer, but thanks for asking.
Your arrogance astounds me. You think you are so brilliant and perceptive that you know the truth with certainty, and therefore anyone who disagrees with you can not be possibly be sincere.
Let me tell why I disagree with the anti-vaxxers: because they have no solid evidence. They have lots of evidence, but it’s all bad.
You don’t agree? Fine. Present one solid and convincing piece of evidence that the COVID vaccines are ineffective or inordinately dangerous.
And if you can not, perhaps you should consider tempering that arrogance.
Well, I assumed you said “you douchebags” because you were paying attention. Indeed I thought for a moment you might be waving at me. Even though one so prissilly fussy about decorum might risk charges of hypocricy from those who take such seriously, I think your language is justified.
And of course, lf you can’t face cursory examination, you might as well serve up a cursery defence!
So … Health Canada never saw the Harrison Ford remake of The Fugitive wherein Devlin MacGregor Pharmaceuticals rigged the clinical trials of their drug to ensure FDA approval?
Apparently real life follows fiction.
How dare you criticize Vioxx!
Or Zantac.
I guess I was lucky. My Dr. prescribed vioxx for arthritis, it did not give me any relief so I stopped taking it after a month. I guess I did not take it long enough to be damaged.
I’d rather useless Canadians take drugs – or have soap or shampoo or whatever rubbed in their eyes – than animals.
Experts URGE STATINS for 15-YEAR OLDS
https://youtu.be/RlvCEJj6Yy8?si=dQ7LmUq0Ni6hOl3W