The whole story is a good example of why there are IRBs in the first place --- in any story not about this Linux kernel fiasco people generally cast them as the bad guys.

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NetMageSCW 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Since this IRB approved the study, what good were they?

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margalabargala 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That person died in a car accident and they were wearing a seatbelt! Why would anyone wear a seatbelt? They are clearly useless.

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stinkbeetle 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That seems like a bad faith reinterpretation of the context that the question was being asked in. The statement that the question pertained to was, "in any story not about this Linux kernel fiasco people generally cast them as the bad guys."

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Consultant32452 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If a lot of money is involved, it's only a matter of time before all oversight is corrupt. Similarly, you can safely assume all data that is on an important (big money) topic is fake.

	▲	jujube3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But a lot of money was not involved here.