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To the Editor: In his provocative article on nonfinancial conflicts of interest in research, Dr. Levinsky (Sept. 5 issue)¹ wisely focuses on the ultimate danger of intrinsic conflicts of interest — that of harm to patients or healthy volunteers who participate in research.

The doctrine of informed consent embodies the ethical norm that research subjects have a right to be apprised of all reasonably foreseeable risks of their participation in research and to undertake those risks, if at all, completely voluntarily. Some commentators have recently endorsed the notion that financial conflicts of interest that are not already prohibited should be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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