The human challenge trial had 36 un vaccinated subjects, all between the ages of 18 and 29. All volunteers agreed to be infected with covid in a concentrated dose administered through the nasal cavity. Part one was about what happened when ansell keys invited a group of young men to spend a year in a dingy set of rooms under the university of minnesota football stadiam. This episode is about the strange way that so many scientists think about the morality of human experiments.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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