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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 Trust in IRBs

IRBs were set up kind of as a police organization to police doctors or researchers who were trying to do medical research. The IRB that's policing scientists turns out to discover that scientists are not a very crime pro group, he says. So in this situation, the incidence of a tet that wrong doing is going to be very small,. And it's hard for the agencies that oversee IRBs to prove they're actually doing anything worthwhile.

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