Exam 2 - Freedman: “A Response to a Purported Ethical Difficulty with RTCs Involving Cancer Patients”

What is the standard rebuttal to the Hellmans’ case against clinical trials that Freedman believes is inadequate, and why does he believe it is inadequate? 

Freedman’s own view is that the so-called enrollment dilemma is a myth. Why does he believe it is not real? 

A correct answer to the previous question will, among other things, refer to the concept of equipoise. What is it? Also, what is one of the two mistakes that Freedman believes people make in connection with equipoise? 

Equipoise:

one mistake Freedman believes:

Freedman ends his article by correcting a misconception about a moral principle often cited by those who oppose clinical trials—a moral principle associated with the 18th century moral philosopher Immanuel Kant, which Kant called the Categorical Imperative. What is this mistake? 

Freedman believed