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Nature Medicine 14, 471 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0508-471b
Scaled-up self-experimentation proposed
Laura Spinney1
- London
Sometimes they are depicted as crackpots, sometimes as maverick geniuses, but scientists have always experimented on themselves. Now a British biotech entrepreneur named William Bains is proposing that self-experimenters should form collectives, pooling resources to make their findings more acceptable to the mainstream scientific community.
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