[potato3732842]

>IRBs are only REALLY required when you are intervening in patient care or pose some theoretical risk to a human.

In practice, sure, but that's not what the spaghetti of rules that one is compelled by law to follow state. This disconnect is the whole point of the article.

[skwb]

I just pointed out the numerous exemptions to IRBs for research. People can literally make a research career and never touch IRBs.

The point I'm trying to make is that the blog is so narrowly defined that it doesn't match the reality of clinical research.