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idiotsecanttoday at 1:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is exactly the sort of bad incentives that lead to things like deliberately throwing drug trials. Very small amounts of money make people do horrible things every day, by what magic would this be an exception?


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kwikieltoday at 1:34 PM

Usually the reverse problem is happening - company does pump its stock based on potentially having their drug accepted but it’s usually the case that it will be rejected - but you don’t k ow that for sure for many years - prediction market may help here

andaitoday at 3:06 PM

> Very small amounts of money make people do horrible things every day,

What is this referring to?

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