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“Ack!” shouted Nicholas, who was watching TV, as he quickly got up. “What is he doing…?” Everyone froze as it was so shocking.
Nicholas thought that it wouldn't be easy to break the strong belief of anti-vaxxers with some vague logic and persuasion, so he expected Young-Joon to take strong action, given his personality. But he didn’t think it would be this dramatic. To administer the vaccine and HIV to himself?
“Wait, he’s putting HIV inside his own body? Is Doctor Ryu crazy?”
“Can he do that?” Joo Hwa-Young, the lab director of Lab Five, asked Nicholas as they were watching TV together.
“Whether he can or not, people usually aren’t able to do that, no matter how confident they are in their product,” Nicholas said.
“Isn’t human testing against research methods?”
“Um…”
Nicholas thought for a moment.
“It is normally against research ethics for the frontline experimenter to experiment with a sample from their bodies,” Joo Hwa-Young said.
“But Director Joo, Doctor Ryu is not only the frontline experimenter, but the project leader,” Nicholas replied.
It was normally against research ethics for a frontline experimenter to experiment with their own sample; it was banned by law, and the project leader would get punished. This wasn’t originally in the ethics guidelines, but it was created after...
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