Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats

Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by s1artibartfast on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:43AM (#25493425)

>The subjects were delighted to be contacted by another research group

Where did you get that they were delighted from the article you linked? Were they all uniformly delighted?

It seems that either way, the original agreement/contract/TOS should govern what can be done with personal medical information.

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by placer on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:54AM (#25493479)

The reference was for the fact some of the original patients tried to sue the Sobells.

The “delighted” bit comes from Alcoholism: A Review of its Characteristics, Etiology, Treatments, and Controversies by Irvine Maltzman, which goes in to the Sobell controversy in great detail.

Edit: Going back to the book, here’s the most relevant quote from the late Maltzman: “the patients contacted prior to the court injunction all expressed a willingness to cooperate and to be interviewed” Maybe “delighted” was too strong of a word.

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by s1artibartfast on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:57AM (#25493488)

Thanks for clarifying.

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