What I love about science

[plural]

is light of hope and optimism it brings the world.

Take this study for example:

You win the HIV!

Women using a microbicide to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus become infected more often than those in a control group.

How does someone get to be the lucky constestant in that freak show.
[Full Disclosure - I refuse to actually read the article]

I can just see the study planners now:

Group A will apply microbicide and get the HIV
Group B will not apply microbicide and get the HIV

Everybody wins!

Why brown people havent been this much fun since slavery.

Aint africa great?

Comments

[plural.livejournal.com]

It looks like any HIV that was contracted was due to unsafe sex.

You know I love you
but seriously darling

that comment earns
a gold plated
captain obvious
award

*grin*

[random-llama.livejournal.com]

hahaha *mwah*

Yeah,yeah I know but I thought I'd put it in because your post seemed so righteously indignant about this evil drug company giving these poor african women HIV.

Still, I'm surprised that a drug now at phase III increased the risk of contracting HIV. You'd think that sort of thing would have been ruled out before it even hit phase I.

[plural.livejournal.com]

more than indignant I was having fun at the expense of a poorly phrase tagline (which is why I refused to read the article, cause then it would ruin my joke).

and one would think so.

I have to imagine however that the ethical decisions around how to establish such a study would have been quite difficult.

[random-llama.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were against animal testing and decided to do all the testing on african women instead.

[plural.livejournal.com]

I bet that was PETA's suggestion

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

People for the
Ethical
Trafficing of
Africans