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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 Importance of Ethics in the IRB

The research ethics crowd was attracted to this topic because it posed interesting questions like the one you were just discussing, and they have written a great deal about it. But what we have in practice is not ethics, but pure bureaucracy. There was no ethics in the day to day workings of an IRB,. And even though that is not true, it means that scientists who question IRB are assumed to be against ethics.

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