Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2012

An End to IRBs?

Ethics review is a big industry. As Will van den Hoonaard has noted,

In Canada alone, the business of academic ethics is a $35 million industry; when you include three other countries (United States, United Kingdom, and Australia), the industry amounts to some $500 million, with an inordinate amount of costs borne by cash-strapped universities. The reciprocal obligations, contradictions, and inherent permutations of such a large industry are nearly impossible to escape.

It may be hard to imagine such an industry disappearing overnight.