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Carl Schneider, JD: Patient Decision-Making, Questioning Informed Consent, and Why IRBs Should Be Abolished

The External Medicine Podcast

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The Importance of IRBs in Research Ethics

Carl Safina: Research ethics is not, as Justice Holmes once said, a brooding omnipresence in the sky. There really isn't something up there called ethical research. It is a subject about which opinions differ because these are difficult human problems. What people regarded as an ethical one time may not be what we would regard as ethical now.

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