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is that when you have problems you have to respond to them.
We have very serious problems in the research community and
in the academic research community with designing
appropriate responses to problems. It is a fundamental
problem of professional self-regulation. We have -- it
manifests itself both in how the universities respond and
also how the federal government responds.
Inside universities -- I was at a conference a
couple of years ago where an IRB executive secretary was
talking about a system they designed on their campus for
tracking the publications of researchers on their campuses
and then trying to correlate them with IRB approved
protocols, which raised a firestorm of protest on campus at
the big brother concept.
In the arena of research misconduct any time we
talk about government regulatory mechanisms and government
oversight we can invoke the specter of the science police.
The science police are going to try to destroy research as
we know it.
There is serious resistance to any kind of
inspection system. Now it is widely accepted that we could
have an inspection system for animal sites but the concept
of having inspection for human sits is anathema.
And the third issue -- and the third thing --