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The women were "enrolled in a drug-company sponsored research trial." I love how Schuklenk goes on throughout his article to refer to them as patients of GlaxoSmithKline, and it's a smooth transition from there to an assumption that their medical care was the responsibility of GlaxoSmithKline. They were not the in the medical care of GlaxoSmithKline, they either volunteered or were compensated by GlaxoSmithKline to help test a drug, which inherently means that some of them would receive placebos. None of them were put in any more danger than they were already in before. When you have genital herpes, you give birth through a C-section or have a blinded, sore-covered baby: that is just the way that it is and always has been. If GlaxoSmithKline is changnig that... we're going to bash them for testing it too thoroughly? I don't get it.
