Documents concerning Censorship and IRBs

James Boster; Common Sense for the Common Rule.

James Boster, Towards IRB Reform.

James Boster; Letter to Vice-Provost of Research Gregory Anderson.

The Illinois CAS White Paper; Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB Mission Creep.

Philip Hamburger; The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards.

Philip Hamburger; Resolutions against IRB censorship.

James Lindgren and Philip Hamburger; Censorship and Institutional Review Boards, a conference to be held at the Northwestern University School of Law on Thursday, April 6, and Friday, April 7, 2006.

American Association of University Professors; Protecting Human Beings: Institutional Review Boards and Social Science Research

Richard Shweder; Protecting Human Subjects and Preserving Academic Freedom: Prospects at the University of Chicago.

174 Universities (including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and the University of Connecticut!) which have exercised the legal option to not apply the IRB system to non-federally funded projects.

Christopher Shea; Don't Talk to the Humans: The Crackdown on Social Science Research.

Sharon Begley; Review Boards Pose Threat To Social Scientists' Work.

Carol Tavris; The high cost of skepticism: here's what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.

Charles L. Bosk; Bureaucracies of Mass Deception: Institutional Review Boards and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research

Kevin D. Haggerty; Accommodating Ethical Review: Response to Bosk and De Vries

The Belmont Report; Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45, Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects.

Theodore Falk; Scientific Research (Oregon Health Law Manual).

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