Human Guinea Pigs Get Paid
Yes, it's true. Professional
human guinea pigs get paid for medical experiments. It reminds
me of the scene from the movie "Monty Python's The Meaning
Of Life," in which the father explains to his 50 children
that he can't afford to feed them any longer. "It's medical
experiments for the lot of you," he announces, and all the
children are sad (after singing the infamous "sperm"
song).
In real life it isn't so bad
according to those that do this for a living. You take a drug
and get paid. That sounds easy enough.
Medical, health and psychological
research requires a steady supply of humans for testing. Trials
and experiments can be for testing of new drugs, new medical
devices, or even new psychological therapies. They can also be
general research into various diets, exercise routines or other
things related to health or medicine. Volunteers - the human
guinea pigs - who participate in the various trials, tests and
experiments get paid.
For example, there recently
was a study done on the benefits of a diet based on what the
ancient hunter-gatherers ate. Volunteers were paid $200 and given
all the food they were to eat for the three weeks of the study.
Daily blood testing was one of the requirements, but subjects
were otherwise free to live their lives normally.
Now, that is an example of
a relatively low-paying job for research participants (a nice
term for guinea pigs). Every study, trial or test has its own
budget and pay-scale. Sometimes it will hardly seem worth your
while. On the other hand, there are some people that make a living
at this.
For example, in another study,
subjects were paid $9,000 for participating in three weeks of
asthma research. This was much more intrusive, requiring having
a tube down the throat for most of the time. You probably couldn't
do this one if you had a regular job. But $3,000 per week isn't
all that bad. The requirements of various tests will obviously
vary, and the pay varies greatly as well.
The website www.gpgp.net
(guinea pigs get paid) has info on
drug trials and other studies that you can get paid to participate
in. What other ways can you find these opportunities? Try calling
major research facilities. Search online by typing in the various
types into a search engine ("dietary research volunteers,"
or "cancer drug trials"). Find a group of people that
participates in these trials and experiments regularly if you
want to do this more than once. Hanging out with the other human
guinea pigs (at least in an online forum) is a great way to hear
about new opportunities.
Until next time,
Steve
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