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Ep. 59: Simon Whitney on "From Oversight to Overkill", How an Obscure Bureaucracy Destroyed Medical Experimentation & Slowed Down the Engines of Scientific Innovation

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The Period Before IRBs

The 1950s and 60s in the U.S. were a time of tremendous medical breakthroughs. The polio salt vaccine was field tested in 1954, I think it was trials. My parents got a note saying we'd like Simon to become a polio pioneer. It was a, by today, standards grossly unethical experiment. And you couldn't do it today.

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