[Air-L] IRBs

[Christian Nelson]

Oops. Didn't catch the locality. Doesn't everyone in cyberspace live  
in the same place? ;-)
Re: the US guidelines, I think most of them are quite clear, with the  
very unfortunate exception of the definition of what constitutes  
"research." But I hear the OHRP is working on that.

On Mar 8, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Mark D. Johns wrote:

> Christian Nelson wrote:
>> That is stupid, and shows complete ignorance of the federal
>> governments guidelines. There are a lot of IRBs out there who are
>> simply making up their own rules, which is foolish.
>
> What you say is true, but Marj isn't in the U.S., so her "federal
> government" may have different guidelines. In fact, the U.S.  
> guidelines
> for IRBs are so vague that they clearly invite absurdity.
> -- 
> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor and Head of the
>   Department of Communication Studies
> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
> http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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