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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 Irony of Regulating Social Science

CNN's John Sutter asks why social scientists can't do important research on certain topics. He says IRBs make it impossible to study in a serious way, like interviewing terrorists for an article. The First Amendment keeps the government from regulating journalists, he writes. But that's an issue you would have to litigate with other social scientists,.Sutter: It is very bizarre to let journalists investigate these kinds of things and not serious social scientists.

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