A scientist working on developing a new drug for a company that makes medicine. The research is taking longer than the scientist had thought it would and the company is putting pressure on the scientist to finish quickly.
The drug is finally ready to begin drug trails to test if the drug works on humans. Because the scientist wants to make sure the test goes well for the drug he removes all the most unhealthy potential patients from the sample group. The scientist then splits the remaining test subjects into two groups. One group will get the drug, the other will get a harmless sugar pill. Again in the interest of making sure the trial works out the scientist makes sure that the healthiest people in the sample are in the group that gets the real drug.
At the end of the test the two groups are compared, and the group that got the drug scored higher in several health measures. The company is happy with the scientist.
Did the scientist behave in an ethical manner?
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