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Originally Posted by DDTempest
That was my initial reaction too; but then I read the article. Premature babies have issues with going into cardiac arrest from being OVER fed. If you took a random homeless person off the street and asked them to participate in a study which will cause them a .5% chance of death BUT WOULD OTHERWISE CAUSE THEM TO LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFE they'd probably not tell you to fuck off. This is a 1 in 200 hypothetical chance: THEY MADE THAT FIGURE UP as a guess but have experienced no deaths so far.
Still, I am glad they are performing this study on worthless ginger babies first.
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To be fair, it's not quite how you outlined it. One in 200 times the homeless man dies. The other 199 times, he lives...but is still homeless. Instead of glory for the homeless man, he becomes a Jesus figure, risking life for a greater good.
...but fuck it. Like the article said, these infants aren't going to have a good life either way. They're going to grow up in a government building, probably to hate life and become murderers or something. This program is starting their life off on the right foot, giving back to the community.
I mean, if they were taking kids that would otherwise be adopted, I may be opposed, but it talks about the adoption rate having to stay below a certain amount for the program to continue.
Test away, Irish. You're scientific pioneers.