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When research partners disagree on self-experimentation

My research partner and I developed a memory enhancement drug together but she wants to test it on ourselves first and I think that crosses an ethical line even though we both desperately want to know if it works.

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Two collaborators are facing the temptation to become their own test subjects, risking both their partnership and their principles for the sake of discovery.

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