Drug-trial volunteers should not accept this abuse of their participation in research. Failing to publish the results of clinical trials is a betrayal of the implicit trust that they have placed in researchers to use their contribution to increase and improve the stock of scientific knowledge.
换句话说，研究成果曝光不足导致药物研发过程具有内生的低效性。但即便我们可以容忍浪费，也无法容忍对患者造成本可以避免的危害性。药物试验志愿者不应接受这种对其参与研究成果的滥用。不公布临床试验结果违反了他们对研究者隐含的信任，他们本以为研究人员会用他们的贡献来增加并改善科学知识的存量。