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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 IRB's Failures

There's a vigorous debate on the way about the IRB system's failures, but it's been hidden away in specialty journals and medicine-lored ethics. It's time for the public to be informed about what it's wrong and what we can do about it. Simon Tisdall: How did you get into this topic of IRBs that might be a bit obscure to the general listener? He said they're set up to protect research subjects from being abused at Stanford.

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