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, a quiet storm has been brewing. On June 6, Ostrom followed up with a report on the overwhelming number of requests for "opt-out" bracelets researchers had received following her story (the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, the parent organization running the study through the UW and Harborview, provides the bracelets free to people requesting them).

We understand you conducted telephone surveys to determine if the respondents would be willing or otherwise tolerant of being the subject of medical experiments should they be in a condition subject to these studies. Can you confirm whether they were asked to comment on whether they thought others should be experimented on without consent?

, which melodramatized the all too real phenomenon of American and European drug companies finding it more expedient (if more ethically questionable) to do research on poorly educated and ill informed Third World subjects. Turns out, Hollywood could just as well have set their cameras on good old Seattle.