Who regulates the regulators?

We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

Who regulates the regulators? The Roots of Progress About the blog • Writing • Speaking • Bibliography • Subscribe • Roots of Progress Institute Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm by Jason Crawford · May 4, 2023 · 14 min read IRBs Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review the ethics of medical trials: From Oversight to Overkill , by Dr. Simon Whitney. From the title alone, you can see where this is going. IRBs are supposed to (among other things) make sure patients are ful

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