First, I think that working within a broken system know you can’t fix is bad, especially when it lends authority to the system. And second, the IRB system as it exists isn’t being condemned or opposed by bioethicists, and in fact was put in place by the Belmont Report, which was written by a bioethics expert group.
Per HHS, “The Belmont Report… is the outgrowth of an intensive four-day period of discussions that were held in February 1976 at the Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center supplemented by the monthly deliberations of the Commission that were held over a period of nearly four years.”
Not sure who was part of the four-day discussion, but per that site, the commission included, among others:
Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of California at San Francisco.
Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Pacific School of Religion.
First, I think that working within a broken system know you can’t fix is bad, especially when it lends authority to the system. And second, the IRB system as it exists isn’t being condemned or opposed by bioethicists, and in fact was put in place by the Belmont Report, which was written by a bioethics expert group.
I have heard the claim that there were no professional ethicists among the authors of the Belmont Report.
Per HHS, “The Belmont Report… is the outgrowth of an intensive four-day period of discussions that were held in February 1976 at the Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center supplemented by the monthly deliberations of the Commission that were held over a period of nearly four years.”
Not sure who was part of the four-day discussion, but per that site, the commission included, among others:
Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of California at San Francisco.
Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Pacific School of Religion.