To play the devil's advocate: if Parexel runs the trial with ethical/regulatory lapses, it is indeed responsible for the outcome of the study; to TeGenero, the patients, regulatory agencies, etc.
However, I agree that in this case Parexel is not *ultimately* responsible for what happened to those patients. The latter, I might add, I hope are compensated and cared for.
It's nice to heap scorn upon evil corporate entities from the comfort of your anonymous easy chair. But you should hopefully understand that the drug doesn't belong to and wasn't developed by Parexel.
Parexel manages clinical trials for companies who've already invented drugs and done the labtop R&D. It is the (presumedly guilty) corporate face placed on such trials, and bears resposibility for the ethical, clinical and regulatory execution of them.
Place the blame for the fate of these poor people at the feet of the company that developed the drug - not at those of the company that did everything according to well-established and strictly regulated procedure.
I'm tired of the arm-chair pseudo-intellectual criticism.
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To play the devil's advocate: if Parexel runs the trial with ethical/regulatory lapses, it is indeed responsible for the outcome of the study; to TeGenero, the patients, regulatory agencies, etc. However, I agree that in this case Parexel is not *ultimately* responsible for what happened to those patients. The latter, I might add, I hope are compensated and cared for.
It's nice to heap scorn upon evil corporate entities from the comfort of your anonymous easy chair. But you should hopefully understand that the drug doesn't belong to and wasn't developed by Parexel. Parexel manages clinical trials for companies who've already invented drugs and done the labtop R&D. It is the (presumedly guilty) corporate face placed on such trials, and bears resposibility for the ethical, clinical and regulatory execution of them. Place the blame for the fate of these poor people at the feet of the company that developed the drug - not at those of the company that did everything according to well-established and strictly regulated procedure. I'm tired of the arm-chair pseudo-intellectual criticism.