{"id":12651,"date":"2010-03-21T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/ka-at-boston-skeptics-in-the-pub-march-29\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T22:01:26","slug":"ka-at-boston-skeptics-in-the-pub-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/medicine\/ka-at-boston-skeptics-in-the-pub-march-29.php","title":{"rendered":"KA at Boston Skeptics in the Pub March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yers truly will speak at <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonskeptics.com\/?page_id=248\">Tommy Doyle&rsquo;s, Harvard Square, Cambridge.<\/a>&nbsp;7:00 PM on March 29.<\/p><p>Title:<\/p><p>Implausible Health Claims and Human Studies Ethics: A Collision Course<\/p><p>Description:<\/p><p>A broad international consensus regarding protections for subjects in human trials emerged during the 2nd half of the 20th century. It can be summarized in several tenets, most of which pertain explicitly or implicitly to scientific considerations. Recent projects involving human trials of implausible health claims (&rdquo;CAM&rdquo;) have been at odds with some of those tenets. I&rsquo;ll discuss one trial in detail and mention a few others. 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