They Priced the Suffering and Called It Information
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The ticker did not know it was pricing a child.
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Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- Kalshi, Tarek Mansour, Joshua Pederson, Boston University
- Themes
- prediction markets, clinical trials, pharmaceutical regulation, medical ethics, FDA drug approval
- Floor values engaged
- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Equality & fairness