Showing posts with label journalism Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Elliott Decries IRB Opacity

Writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm Blog, Carl Elliott argues that the "by any reasonable estimate [the IRB] oversight system has been a failure . . . yet so many people are professionally invested in the current oversight system that they cannot imagine replacing it, only tinkering with it." He particularly condemns the secrecy of the system.

[Carl Elliott, “When Medical Muckraking Fails” Chronicle of Higher Education, Brainstorm, August 2, 2012.]