On the 20th of July the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele is holding a full day conference focusing on the topic of Research ethics in Europe – what is done and how it could be done better On the 21st of July will be a half day workshop on the Role of Autonomy & […]
Tag: Research Ethics
Should Patients be obliged to participate in research?
Is the heading of this article in the BBC news today. The article argues that too few patients are volunteering to participate in a particular research trial. […]
The “progress” towards Fast-Tracking research ethics review in the NHS ethics system
Some of you may be aware that the National Research Ethics Service has been trialling a Fast-Track system for dealling rapidly with applications that present “no material ethical issues”. They have recently published a report on this trial which can be found here: Developing NRES. […]
How should we regulate research?
By David Hunter The BMJ is having it’s once yearly wrangle about the regulation of research in the UK: It’s time to change how Europe regulates research Many of the suggestions made and complaints are to some degree valid, the present system is cumbersome (though I think moving in the right direction in many ways […]
A fishy affair
By David Hunter Writing in his usual uncompromising style Ben Goldacre describes the latest carry-ons in the “trial” carried out in Durham by the Council on whether fish oils improve GCSE performance: You’ll remember the Durham fish oil “trial” story, possibly the greatest example of scientific incompetence ever documented from a local authority. Initially they […]
The good old but somewhat cold days
By David Hunter Chris Bertram of Crooked Timber links to this 1958 piece of research on how children behaved when locked inside fridges… Using a specially designed enclosure, 201 children 2 to 5 years of age took part in tests in which six devices were used, including two developed in the course of this experiment […]