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Originally Posted by ravens_cry
Yeah, but failure is one of the costs of doing business. That is why we have people testing, after animal testing, because test animals may be like humans, but 'like' is the operative word. Most often there will be some reaction one didn't expect, and it is better it happened in ones experiment, then for thousands, if not millions of people after approval.
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That is why we have controlled clinical trials.
The question asked was name a scientific experiment that seriously went wrong, and I thought that a clinical trial having to be halted because of the test subjects all having a violent reaction might be going wrong. (Or is it - I could be wrong here)