Institutional Review Blog

Retraction Watch reports that Social Science & Medicine has retracted an article based on interviews with Costa Rican healthcare provi...

On Thursday, February 28, I'll speak at Brigham Young University. The talk, " Ignorance Is Strength: Pseudo-Expertise and the Regul...

My own institution, George Mason University, has adopted two significant IRB reforms: clarifying the regulatory definition of research, and ...

Back in October, I participated in the Ethics Rupture summit, hosted by the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University of Freder...

Robert Dingwall argues that ethics regulation is just one part of a corporate model that threatens innovative research in universities. [D...

Alice Dreger reviews Laura Stark's Behind Closed Doors for the Journal of American History : Contrary to the self-aggrandizing story ...

Tom Puglisi, director of the Office of Research Oversight in the Department of Veterans Affairs and former director of human subject protect...

Writing in a special report of the Hastings Center Report , a team of prominent ethicists and researchers "argue that conceptual, moral...

I have reported in the past on the ability of U.S. federal officials to avoid IRB review of their work by asserting that they are not conduc...

Last week I promised some comments on the Winter 2012 issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , which features a symposium entit...