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

• margalabargala 10mo ago
  That person died in a car accident and they were wearing a seatbelt! Why would anyone wear a seatbelt? They are clearly useless.
  • Consultant32452 10mo ago
    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 10mo ago
      But a lot of money was not involved here.
  • stinkbeetle 10mo ago
    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."
  • elsjaako 10mo ago
    > That person died in a car accident and they were wearing a seatbelt! But in any story not about this car accident people generally cast them as the useless. This story isn't evidence that IRBs are always useless, but also it's not an example of them being useful. The thing this story shows is they are sometimes useless.
    • margalabargala 10mo ago
      Yeah, that's reasonable.