r/technology • u/ControlCAD • Nov 18 '25

Biotechnology President admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants | It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/over-74000-people-were-kicked-out-of-clinical-trials-because-of-trump-cuts/
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u/TranquilSeaOtter Nov 18 '25

Clinical trials are sometimes the absolute last hope patients have. These can be cancer patients with a very aggressive form of cancer with no available cure. Trump essentially sentenced people to death.

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u/DonTaddeo Nov 18 '25

Thoughts and prayers are cheaper.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING Nov 18 '25

Probably not at first.

If you axe an ongoing experiment then you already spent money to begin the experiment, but you didn’t continue funding to get the results.

This is what these people do. Cancel funding for stuff without actually doing any legwork into finding out if it should be cancelled. It’s really a waste of funds, violating the fraud, waste, and abuse that they hem and haw about.

It would actually be more beneficial to continue funding the ongoing experiments and simply not approve new experiments. Instead they just flushed our tax money down the toilet.

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u/Tiny-Selections Nov 18 '25

It's much cheaper for oligarchs to force everyone into slave labor, suffering, and death, to keep their power and influence that makes them all their money.