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From a Pacific island overrun by rats to hospital wards battling superbugs, why our best intentions so often backfire. 

Would you take $5,000 to be in a painful medical study? And should researchers even be allowed to ask? 

We'd never ask a breast cancer patient what she did to deserve it. So why do we ask her? 

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