Human Trials

    Many may think of human experimentation was stabbing needles into hearts to see what happens or dropping a dumbbell on someones foot to see how much it swells, but that isn't what I'm here about. Many drugs and life-changing drugs just require some human trials to get the go and help people as soon as possible. But because of all of the unethical tests that have been done, human trials are a tricky topic.

    Usually, when a drug that would seem to cure a disease is presented, it has to go through many different tests before it even gets to one human trial, if it even does. The only legal way to do this is to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for clinical trials by patient consent. This is also only possible after years of studying and developing of the drug to make sure it's almost 100 percent safe. The problem is this isn't efficient. You have made a new pill that regrows hair only on the head? Wait 20 years and then you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get it on the market. If you could just have a set group of people evaluate these drugs instead of having lots of certification to happen, it could cut waiting time in half.

    The only way to get around this is to be government sponsored or curing an epidemic. I would not doubt that some government tests have been not consensual unethical tests, but we really do need these to further research. While I do believe it is horrible, everything has a counter-argument. When curing an epidemic, the government may break it's own rules (realistically there is probably a loophole somewhere) to get the product on several human trials early. This is only for the better good, but if this kind of treatment can be given for anything, why not do it to a different drug? As long as a patient consents it and has a reasonable background check they could risk their lives for science. That but only another topic for another time.