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The Importance of Consent in Research
The scientific process is slow in part for bureaucratic reasons. We have to be very careful to get ethics approval for this, which by the way was the reason the ostensible reason why my latest article was retracted. Susanna Diaz is not an academic. She just went ahead and put up a survey. She's allowed to publish such a survey. I am an academic. I have constraints. Any research that I do, I have to get approved by something called an institutional review board, IRB for ethics. Now the data we're already collected is too late to go through IRB. So you are always going to be playing catch up behind whatever the wake is that's left in terms of