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Payment for research participation: a coercive offer?
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- Published on: 2 May 2008
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The way to study the problem of coercion of Wertheimer and Miller,1 is certainly correct and arrive at a conclusion very acceptable: The offer of financial payment does not coerce because it cannot coerce.
They claim finally that the question as to when the offer of financial payment constitutes an undue inducement, is a topic that merits separate analysis.
However, we believe that the payment for research...
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