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. On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Marj Kibby wrote:
Given the research being done in medicine here I think our IRB does waste too much time policing cultural studies research where the potential for harm is comparably negligible.
For a student project they insisted that we get the names and addresses of discussion forum participants who were being 'interviewed' through the forum - so that we could send them a ststement saying we wouldn't use their names and addresses.
Marj
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