Article Text
Editorial
The Ad Hoc Advisory Group’s proposals for research ethics committees: a mixture of the timid, the revolutionary, and the bizarre
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Footnotes
-
Competing interests: A J Dawson is a member of the Shropshire Local Research Ethics Committee. The views expressed in this article are purely the author’s own. The author has been involved in training the members of research ethics committees and individuals with responsibility for research ethics and research governance in higher education as part of his employment at Keele University.
-
Ethical approval was not required.
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Is the NHS research ethics committees system to be outsourced to a low-cost offshore call centre? Reflections on human research ethics after the Warner Report
- Meeting the challenges facing research ethics committees: some practical suggestions
- The ESRC research ethics framework and research ethics review at UK universities: rebuilding the Tower of Babel REC by REC
- Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe?
- Research ethics committees: the role of ethics in a regulatory authority
- What are local issues? The problem of the local review of research
- Multicentre research ethics committees: has the cure been worse than the disease?
- Should research ethics committees be told how to think?
- Health policy and systems research: towards a better understanding and review of ethical issues
- An analysis of decision letters by research ethics committees: the ethics/scientific quality boundary examined