Research ethics committees and the power of complaint

By Global Bioethics

Research ethics committees have had a bit of a rough summer. The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) mentioned below implies that US research ethics committees working with the current version of the Common Rule are somewhat wrongheaded. When you are told that you need ?streamlining? in order to ?increase efficiency?, it is hard not to conclude that you are bloated, misguided and ineffectual.

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Research ethics committees and the power of complaint

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