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Who Watches the Watchers?

Mar 02, 2007

An article from the New York Times explores the realm of ethics panels -- Institutional Review Boards -- designed to protect participants in biomedical studies. The author writes, "Faculty and graduate students across the country increasingly complain that these panels have spun out of control, curtailing academic freedom and interfering with research in history, English and other subjects that poses virtually no danger to anyone."

 

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