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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 Problem With the IRB Overregulation

Sally Kohn: There's different reasons that we discussed on this podcast that leads to these hard coding bad laws into the fabric of society. The other thing I do notice is the action bias in case there's a public disaster, right? So the Tuskegee study, right? In which case we defaulting to like strong signaling to the public. And by doing very strict measures similar to like airport security or whatever,. That is then leading to this to this overreaction that stays persistent over time.

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