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If a drug company decided to do a clinical trial and decided their research group would be made up of poor people that they would pay to participate, this would be considered _____.

ethical, because they are paying them
unethical, because they are targeting a group
ethical, because it is a research study
unethical, because they did not inform them of the risks

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Unethical because they didn’t inform them of the risk
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Unethical the last one, because since they know that they are poor and would do anything for money they don’t want to inform them of the risks.
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