{"id":1818,"date":"2007-02-28T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/02\/28\/irb_issues_cove.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T08:08:58","slug":"irb_issues_cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/02\/28\/irb_issues_cove.html","title":{"rendered":"IRB issues covered by NYTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times today, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/28\/arts\/28board.html\">an article on Institutional Review Boards<\/a> (the board that handles human subjects issues for academic institutions).  I&#8217;m definitely amongst the people who constantly bitch about the absurdity of IRBs (even if their intentions are good) and this article discusses my frustration in much more polite terms than i ever could.  I&#8217;m glad to see this issue being publicized because it&#8217;s at the core of my existential crisis.  I am most likely going to graduate next year.  I&#8217;m trying to decide whether or not to go on the academic market.  Currently, i&#8217;m leaning against it purely because i want to get some research done without the limitations and bureaucracy of an IRB.  There&#8217;s a part of me that finds that unbelievably depressing.  I wonder how many others slink away from academia or choose not to pursue a particular research question purely because of IRB.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Tx <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~irinas\/\">Irina<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times today, there&#8217;s an article on Institutional Review Boards (the board that handles human subjects issues for academic institutions). I&#8217;m definitely amongst the people who constantly bitch about the absurdity of IRBs (even if their intentions are good) and this article discusses my frustration in much more polite terms than i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","tag-irb-humansubjects-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}