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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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How to Find an IRB for Medical Research

Most scientists in training find out about the IRBs and their advisors who say this very harmless project you plan on doing needs to go through the IRB. This committee usually meets in private, usually 12 or 15 people, mostly from the faculty of the institution at which you are,. They review the proposal. In theory, they're looking for ethical problems. In practice, they'reLooking to see if it meets everyone of the long, long checklist of items they have to worry about. For instance, it's considered wrong or unethical to refer to hope in your protocol title or your protocol messaging.

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