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a common rule in application.
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The Office for Protection from Research Risk
sometimes found itself subject to direct interference
within NIH. In 1992 or thereabouts there was an attempt by
the Director to intervene and be involved in some fashion
with the Gallo investigation that was then going on for
research that had gone on, on the AIDS virus in Africa
involving also a French collaborator. This was declined by
Dr. McCarthy but there was that kind of pressure that
existed.
Moreover, the NIH Intramural Program dragged
its feet in cooperating with OPRR on a number of occasions
until it was threatened with a disclosure of its failure to
have complied with its own federal policy and the threat
included the notion that revelation would be made that a
subject had died in a sleep study at NIMH. The death was
apparently actually not connected to the researchers it
later turned out but that threat was sufficient to get NIH
to sign on to its assurance.
(Slide.)
OPRR is, however, by the description of Dr.
McCarthy and Dr. Fletcher dependent on whistleblowers and
the press because it does not really have any institutional