The study of paid research studies in the Pittsburgh area showed that there are over 3,000 paid, research studies being conducted by research institutes, companies, universities, and government agencies. The largest market for paid research studies is in the field of health and biology. The market is estimated to be approximately $60 million per year.
What makes paid research studies different is the very fact that they are public. They are not secret. They are open and funded.
It might be because the public is smarter than the research institutes, businesses, universities, and governments, but it really helps that the study of paid research studies is free. In fact, a recent survey showed the Pittsburgh area has one of the lowest pay rates for paid research studies in the country. Research institutes, businesses, universities, and governments are required to pay for their research studies.
I’m not going to lie, in my opinion the pay rates have been ridiculously low in the past. It’s not because the research institutes and universities are evil, but because the public is so stupid. There is no way to truly, truly, truly, truly know what happens in a single experiment or study. So the public is willing to pay research institutes, universities, and governments to use these expensive studies. That is why we have them.
So let us review how government research studies work. These studies are designed to answer specific questions. For example, the National Institute on Aging (or NIA) studies cancer prevention and cures. What the NIA does is studies the chemicals and other compounds in the environment that could cause disease. The studies are designed to answer specific questions and also, the researchers themselves conduct the studies. One study would be a case study. For example, say a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer.
For example, a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. The researchers would do a study to answer the question of why this might be so. If it was, and if it worked, then a cure would be made available.
Most of these studies are conducted on rats, which is why they often come across as pretty scary. The rats would have to be trained to do as they were told, and the rats would have to be exposed to the very same chemicals and environmental pollutants that the study subjects were exposed to. And then the rats would have to be exposed to the exact same chemicals again. It’s like an experiment gone wrong.
I imagine that’s the exact same reason why the rats in these studies are very, very, very scary. While I wouldn’t recommend rats to study, they are a pretty good animal. The rats in these studies were trained to do as their handlers instructed, and the rats were exposed to the very same chemicals as the study subjects. I think they are a pretty good animal.
The rats in these paid-for research studies are called “reared” rats, and they are not used for research in any capacity. They are simply “reared” rats used in the study to act as the control group. This makes it very difficult to control the chemical exposure to the rats.
