Carl Schneider, JD: Patient Decision-Making, Questioning Informed Consent, and Why IRBs Should Be Abolished
The External Medicine Podcast
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The Origins of the IRB System
The Tuskegee study was a new deal program to study what happened if syphilis was left untreated. Congress had hearings and instead of writing a rule or passing a law, it told HHS to make a rule. In the process of setting up this system, almost every decision that was made expanded the authority of the decision. So in the middle of universities whose functioning is impossible without free inquiry, you have what I call a censorship agency That decides whom you can talk to, what kind of questions you can ask,. What kind of information you can get, and how you can publish your results.
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