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To the Editor: In 1966, Henry Beecher shocked the medical community when he documented the unethical research methods and practices used in many scientific studies published in U.S. medical journals after World War II.¹ Recently (March 20 issue), Giardiello et al.² reported the results of a study in which they interviewed physicians and genetic counselors about their use of a commercial genetic test. The researchers sought to determine whether the patients gave informed consent for the study and whether the clinicians understood the test results. In an accompanying editorial,³ Veatch questioned the methods used by Giardiello et al.

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