[tarboreus]

IRB is useless. They don't use much context, including if the speediness of IRB approval would save lives. You could make a reasonable argument that IRB has contributed to millions of preventable deaths at this point, with COV alone it's at least dozens of thousands if not far more.

[angry_octet]

This is the unfortunate attitude that leads to bad research and reduces trust in science. If you think IRB has contributed to deaths you should make a case, because right now you sound like a blowhard.

[admax88q]

By COV do you mean Covid? It sounds like you're alluding to the argument that if they'd only let us test potential vaccines on humans right away then we would have had a vaccine faster. I disagree that that's a foregone conclusion, and you certainly need a strong argument or evidence to make such a claim.

[random5634]

I don't disagree.