Sunday, October 21, 2007
Minutes
| So far our group has met up twice this pass week and in our meetings we were able to discuss ideas we would like to present to Shelby and what we plan on doing to help expand those ideas from going to other nonprofit websites to see what we like to borrow and apply to the habitat website to who will be contacting shelby and finding out more information on what she wants from the website. |
Monday, October 8, 2007
Ethical Lapse
| Last March, the Harvard Medical School was cited for unethical procedures in their research field. Any institution receiving federal funding for research is required to use an IRB. The IRB demanded that eight of the 25 inspected experiments required more scrutiny. Three of the other experiments in question were flagged during the audit for using inappropriately technical language in their consent forms. The IRB also asked Harvard to put a more racially diverse group of reviewers on board because the majority of them were white males. Although, these infractions were minimal when compared to UPenn & Duke, where the National Insititue of Health actually had to freeze research. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=502637 |