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that I am supposed to be writing something about the change
over those 20 years and this will allow me to put it off
yet for another -- anyway I think that is a subject that we
might give consideration to.
A number of us feel very strongly about the
issue of education. This has come up repeatedly in
relationship to the knowledge that IRB members bring to
their work and to the failures of investigators, the young
ones and more experienced ones, because they simply do not
know enough about research ethics or ethics in general.
The media is very poorly informed about issues of ethics
and policy makers, legislators and the public at large.
There is not only the issue of ethics. It is the issue of
science education in general that came up through the
cloning report.
We think that this again is an area where staff
background -- and we begin to find out who is doing what.
What foundations are out there who have money to do studies
on education? What government bodies are doing it or think
they are doing it and so forth? Just as in other areas we
think we have to lay out a fair amount of information and
background studies before we tackle it but we feel very,
very strongly about it.
Bette Kramer and I spoke about it earlier today