In your original post, compare and contrast at least two research designs that might be used to research life threatening diseases/disorders. At least one design should present ethical issues and at least one design should minimize potential ethical issues.
A fundamental ethical problem in statistics arises in experimentation (i.e., in the context of studies of experimental
drugs for treating AIDS).
On one side, organizations such as the National Institute of Health insist on randomly assigning treatments such as flipping a coin for each patient to decide which treatment to assign.
The advantage of randomized experiments is that they allow reliable conclusions without the need to worry about
lurking variables.
However, some groups of AIDS patients have oppose d randomization, instead of making the argument that each patient should be assign ed the best available treatment (or to be more precise, whatever treatment is currently believe d to be the best).
On the other hand, the patients might benefit from being in an experimental study.
Even if the treatment is randomize d, the patients are getting close medical attention from the researchers.
The current best practice is to design studies so that all subjects will be expecte d to benefit in some
way, but still keeping the randomized element.
For example, a study can compare two potentially beneficial experimental treatments, rather than comparing a treatment to an inert “control.”
However, there will always be conflicts of interest between the patients in the study, the scientists conducting it, and the public at large.
In your original post, compare and contrast at least two research designs that might be in use to research lifethreatening diseases/disorders.
At least one design should present ethical issues and at least one design should minimize potential ethical issues.
Provide at least one Scripture passage that supports your ethical perspectives on medical/public health research