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Re:My Institutional Review Board Nightmare by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:19AM (#15130531)
> He most likely has sufficient training and knowledge about the ethics given his profession.

Sure but the mockery in that post suggests he either doesn't care about them or thinks they're stupid.

Also do we really have to point out that just because someone is a doctor doesn't mean they have any authority when it comes to medical ethics? I mean, there's hundreds of cases amply demonstrating this even just this decade.

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Re:My Institutional Review Board Nightmare by DataWorker on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:40AM (#15130607)
If you don't think irb's are fitting targets for such mockery I'm inclined to be strongly suspicious of your claims to have had sufficient dealings with them. They are the DMV and IRS of research rolled into one. I've never met anyone who disagreed with that, even amongst those who served on them, critically important though they may be.
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Re:My Institutional Review Board Nightmare by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:57AM (#15131107)
> strongly suspicious of your claims to have had sufficient dealings with them

You definitely should be since I have made precisely zero of those claims on this website or any other.

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