Always wrong. Also they cannot possibly have a complete medical history for Tony, because only two people know that: him and JARVIS. This is pretty obvious from his vehement evasion of doctors and his general paranoia about information getting loose. It's not really plausible that they could have gotten direct information about Tony's condition, but especially with some of Howard's notes in hand, they knew enough about Tony's work to make lucky guesses.
>> but also withholding treatment until it would get him an advantage. I mean, it's highly unlikely SHIELD had just developed a treatment for palladium poisoning the day before Natasha injected Tony. And if they did, then they were experimenting on him, which is also very wrong. <<
My guess is that they developed it, hopefully did some very brief animal testing, and then pounced on Tony. There would not have been time for the kind of rigorous testing that human trials actually require, but SHIELD doesn't care about that. It should still have been Tony's decision. It's very telling that SHIELD views humans as property, as experimental subjects. Not really the kind of folks you want to have in power.
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Date: 2014-05-05 12:55 am (UTC)Always wrong. Also they cannot possibly have a complete medical history for Tony, because only two people know that: him and JARVIS. This is pretty obvious from his vehement evasion of doctors and his general paranoia about information getting loose. It's not really plausible that they could have gotten direct information about Tony's condition, but especially with some of Howard's notes in hand, they knew enough about Tony's work to make lucky guesses.
>> but also withholding treatment until it would get him an advantage. I mean, it's highly unlikely SHIELD had just developed a treatment for palladium poisoning the day before Natasha injected Tony. And if they did, then they were experimenting on him, which is also very wrong. <<
My guess is that they developed it, hopefully did some very brief animal testing, and then pounced on Tony. There would not have been time for the kind of rigorous testing that human trials actually require, but SHIELD doesn't care about that. It should still have been Tony's decision. It's very telling that SHIELD views humans as property, as experimental subjects. Not really the kind of folks you want to have in power.