A lot of IRBs are a joke. The way I've seen Harvard, Stanford, and a few other university researchers dodge IRB review is by doing research in "private" time i

A lot of IRBs are a joke. The way I've seen Harvard, Stanford, and a few other university researchers dodge IRB review is by doing research in "private" time in collaboration with a private entity. There is no effective oversight over IRBs, so they really range quite a bit. Some are really stringent and some allow anything.