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The Skeptics Guide #932 - May 20 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Importance of Human Subject Consent in Genetic Research

There's no human subject consent when you do this kind of research, right? Like there's no, your IRB is not talking about people being involved at all. And it's just much harder to get ethical approval when people are in a study as opposed to wildlife. Even if they're anonymized, you still have to get human subjects approval. You have to do training for that. Most of these ecologists has probably never done the NIH human trainings. It's not hard to do but human subjects training for how to work with human data.

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