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Hank Greely: The Experiment that Shocked Science

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Why Did He Make a Mistake?

He wanted to be he wanted to be famous. He thought he was going to be amed. And when a nobel prize in and astound the world. But i think t the idea of trying to prevent h i v infection has meritn that's a good thing. We already have pretty good ways to prevent or treat h i v. Now, the benefits are small. Tothe twins. The risks are potentially enormous because no one had ever done this before with humans.We'd barely even done this with monkeys. So the risks are entially enormous. The benefits are fairly small. There are two the two most basic rules about doing research on humans is the benefits have to justify

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