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What Does 'Clinical-Trial Betting' Mean?

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Placing prediction-market wagers on whether a clinical drug trial will succeed or fail, a category criticized as ethically uncomfortable since it effectively puts a financialized price tag on real patients' medical outcomes.

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"Even hardcore degen traders were uneasy about clinical-trial betting once the ethics discourse kicked off."

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Reported and criticized in coverage of Kalshi and Polymarket expanding into clinical-trial outcome markets, with commentators calling the framing 'ghastly' given what's actually being wagered on.

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