Fauci: Rules Of Trials/Science Mustn't Slip In Outbreaks

In the midst of a crisis like the recent Ebola outbreak that swept through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 11,300 people and sickening nearly 29,000, it's tempting to just throw everything the medical community has to offer at it in an attempt to save lives – something drug and vaccine makers and others conducting clinical trials often are under public pressure to do in desperate situations.

But if the principles and rules of science and ethics are not followed, biopharmaceutical companies and researchers engaged in medical product studies could come to the end of an...